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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST 23, 1913-
Br FRANK. P. MACLEXXAX.
fEtered July 1. JS75, as second-class
matter at the postofTtce at Topeka, Kan.,
ur-der the act of congress.
VOLUME XXXV.
..No. 17
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L. E. Pinkham has been appointed"
governor of Hawaii. No, his first name
Is not Lydia.
Money is talking: for Governor Sul
Rer now, whether it did during his
campaign or not.
Governor Sulzer no longer need seek
for the. reason why his hair has a
.tendency to stand straight up.
Probably, if there should be war
with Mexico, the Democrats could be
prevailed upon to let the Republicans
fight.
A wild man has been caught near
Pittsburg. Probably he didn't have
enough money to take him to New
York.
Undoubtedly Mr. Sulzer can tell a
lot of things about Tammany. Hut
will he tell how he came to know
them? '
Until these days of diaphanous
Kowns, mere man was obliged to con
fess that he was unable to see through
a woman.
John Lind wasn't afraid to go Into
Mexico. But in doing so it may have
been noticed that he- avoided passing
through Texas.
Mr. Harg's definition of Colonel
Roosevelt as a 'conservative radical"
is probably appreciated by the protec
tion Democrats.
Governor Sulzer recently said: "I
am in the street called Straight." Un
doubtedly "Wall street is grateful for
the compliment.
One of the most picturesque features
of the governmental situation is the
intense silence that is being maintain
ed by Albert J. Beveridge.
Congressional orators having got as
far down as the decline of the Roman
empire, ther? is hope that the tariff
bill will soon be disposed of.
It is to be hoped that the moving
cf Governor Foss' factory to Canada
will not result in strained relations be
tween this country and the Dominion.
Surely ono of the meanest men has
come to the front in the Washlngton
ian who demands the false teeth of his
divorced wife Just because he paid for
thftn. '
Tammanyites in the New York leg
islature talk about trying Governor
Sulzer "with dignity." But what they
really intend to try him with is a
meat ax.
Mr. Lorimer intimates that he will
stand for re-election to the senate in
Illinois. Apparently he overlooks th
fact that there can't be any "jackpots"
next time.
Lieutenant Governor Glynn says
that when he is established as govev
nor of New York. In Sutler's place, he
wil: be safe and sane. But in the
meantime, what ."
One of the scientists says: "To
keep cool in hot weather, suspend all
thought." Possibly that is the reason
congress is standing the Washington
summer so well.
Governor Sulzer seems to hav?
plenty of courage, at any rate. He is
KGing to take an active part in th.
fight against Tammany in the forth
coming municipal campaign in No"
York city. And among Tammany's ac
tive agents in New York are the gun
men. Th n many miles of good roads
that have been built in Missouri over
right, as it were, won't be worth much
in the near future unless pains -ire
taken to keep them in repair. Building
good roads does not count for much
in the long run unless they are main
tained as such.
There is more to the suggestion that
women be given the task of umpiring
professional ball games than appears
s:t first glance. With her rat3. rolls,
switches, puffs, transformations, tt
cetera, ot cetera, a woman umpire's
hi ad would be immune to the knock
out effects of the unfriendly pop
bottle.
MUNICIPAL NEGLECT.
To it alone can be attributed the col
lapse of the Sixth avenue viaduct the
other day. And the city can consider
itself fortunate that the street car
which plunged partially through it was
loaded with crushed rock Instead of
human freight. Else it would have had
to pay a bill that would hav: assumed
large proportions.
When this structure was built, the
contract called for the expense of its
erection to be borne by the S:tnt x Fe
and the street railway company, while
its upkeep, maintenance and repair tell
to the lot of the city. The street rail
way company ami the Santa Fc ful
filled their part of the bargain. But
the city has given scant attention to
its obligation. As a matter of fact,
municipal neglect has permitted, this
bridge to fall into a decay. Its condi
tion has been notoriously lr.d for a
long time. People who bai to use it
have felt that it has been unsafe. They
have been expecting it to crumble and
fall, and only hoping that they would
not be 'on it when the craii came.
Suppose the contract covering the
construction of this viaCuct and itj
maintenance had been written in other
terms. Suppose the city had paid the
initial expense of building the bridge
on the understanding that the Santa
Fe and the street " railway company
had to provide for its upkeep. Under
such circumstances the people of the
city and the city itself would have tol
erated no such Indifference to the care
of the structure as the city has shown.
Not a loose plank, let alone stretch
after stretch of rotten ones, would have
developed before a roar would have
been raised against corporate disre
gard and corporate negligence for obli
gations that would have been heard
from one end of Kansas to the other.
It is strange, Indeed, that the people
of a city will submit, without almost a
word of protest, to a laxity on the part
of city officials, their paid servants,
that they would not begin to tolerate
for a moment in a public service cor
poration. Perhaps, though, it Isn't so
strange, after all. The people, un
doubtedly, have learned by individual
experiences that It does little or no
good to make suggestions as to munic
ipal matters that should be attended to.
Such suggestions are not often even
courteously received. And 80 if the
city officials have not been getting
complaints during the past few months
concerning the condition of this via
duct, it is probably because the people,
and not without some reason, have
long since become obsessed with the
notion that such complaints would be
without avail. Besides, the people
place men In charge of their public af
fairs to look after them without prod
ding. That's what they're paid for.
And promises to that end are always
glibly given by every candidate for
city office. '
A FREE PRESS? J
From oongress down to the lower
judges of record there is a disposition
among those in authority. to say what
newspapers shall or shall not print,
rightly says the New York World,, and
it continues: Presently, we . suppose,
the patrolman on the beat will take the
matter into his own hands.
Congress invades newspaper offices,
and the supreme court holds that in
stead of violating the liberty of the
press it is only applying new conditions
for the use of the mails. Thus en
couraged. Senator Works introduces a
bill forbidding publication In the Dis
trict of Columbia of more than a mere
statement of the fact that a crime has
been committed.
In Arkansas a bill passed the senate
prescribing the make-up of newspapers
and limiting their activities in news
gathering;. In Indiana there is a new
law making it a penal offense for a
newspaper to print "any article or car
toon calculated to expose any person
at any election to ridicule or con
tempt." The Texas legislature was recently
asked to consider a bill punishing
newspapers for printing deceptive ad
vertisements, whether innocently or b
design. A measure of the same kind
passed in Maine was vetoed by the gov- ,
ernor. f
The recent penitent. ary sentence of i
fifteen years imposed upon a Paterson. j
N. J., editor for "hostility to the gov
ernment must still be in the public
mind, as Is also the attempt of a trial
judge to imprison a Kansas City edi
tor for contempt because he printed a
truthful narrative of certain court pro
ceedings. Less than a month ago the mayor of
Seattle undertook to suppress a news
paper by a police order, and last week
in Missouri a judge ordered the indict
ment of a reporter who had sent to a
newspaper some account of a grand
jury's proceedings.
These episodes are now recalled be
cause this week a circuit judge in West
Virginia ordered the arrest of three re
porters for contempt for the reason
that at a public trial they disregarded
his order that no newspaper should dis
close anything that was going on in his
court. When lie graciously dk'charg.-d
them, the judgment was foolishly de
scribed as "a great triumph for a free
press."
Is this Russia or Santo Domingo?"
THE COVXTY FAIRS.
The county fair usually follows the
harvest, and the harvest in the United
States and Canada extends over a
considerable period of time, but it
may be said in general terms that
with the incoming of September the
county fair season will begin, says
the Christian .Science Monitor. For
the last few years the county fair has
been steadily regaining its old-time
usefulness and dignity. This fact is
evident In improved grounds and
buildings, improved management and
improved exhibits in all parts of the
country. After a departure toward
"expositions." "street fairs," etc..
which resulted in loss of the prestige
that made the county fair of former
years an event of premier importance
in every agricultural community, the
! substantial farmers and interests im
I mediately dependent upon agricultur
' al progress and prosperity are again
' rallying to the support of the county
' agricultural and live stock associa
tions and their annual exhibitions.
The original mistake was made, per
haps, in giving too much' prominence
to speed events.' These of themselves
were not harmful, but they became
so through association with persons
having nothing In common .with the
farming community. It was only a
step from the speeding track to the
horse race.'and the horse race soon
brought some leading" county fairs of
the country into disrepute. About
the same time the tendency . toward
side shows and exhibitions entirely un
related to farming. - . became r strong.
The best people of the-counties .re
fused to exhibit at the fairs or to at
tend them, the county associations de
clined, the grounds were neglected or
sold, and for several years the county
fair was regarded as something that
had gone out of rural life for all time.
.This has proved, fortunately, not-to
be the case. The fairs of the last
three or four years have been among
the best ever held in many parts of
the United States and the Dominion.
They have kept well within their own
legitimate province while at the same
time they have taken advantage of all
modern inventions and innovations for
creating and holding the interest of
those in attendance. To this end the
agricultural schools have contributed
greatly.
There are any number of married
people who have been disappointed in
love. - , .
.
or is a woman generous, just be
cause she gives another a piece of her
mind. .
'"
The man who puts his shoulder to
the wheel is the right kind of a
spokesman.
She's a mean wife who. returns from
a vacation a couple of days ahead of
the schedule.
'
It is well to remember - that the
music which soothes the savage breast
is not ragtime.
JAYHAWKER JOTS
We think the weather here has been
a fright, but, asks the Baldwin Ledger
"what must it be over there?"
Good news in the Canton Pilot from
Bunker Hill: About thirteen drops of
rain to the square yard visited thesa
parts last Sunday evening.
It is said that the blistering heat
and the long continued drouth have
killed the chinch bugs and other in
sect pests by millions, notes the Wood
son County Journal, and it adds: Even
if true, this sounds like the old storv
of burning the barn to
rats. -
A couple were married recently, re
lates the Lebanon Times. The cere
mony over, the wife began to weep
copiously. "What's the matter?" ask
ed the new husband. "I never toll
you that I don't know how to cook."
sobbed the bride. "Don't fret," said
he, "I'll not have anything to cook;
I'm an editor."
Down in an eastern Kansas town
where colored people are thick and
some of them are in business, relates
the Formoso Spirit, the following no
tice was tacked to the door of a little
grocery: "The patrhership heretofore
resisting twixt Mose Skinner and my
self has the day been resolved by mu
tual dissent of both parties. Parties
dat owes de firm will please settle
wid me and parties de firm owes
will please settle wit Mose. John
Slim." .
Tlt-for-tat among the Kansas edi
tors. The Ottawa Republic locatfs
Emporia in Neosho county. And we
tlrought Empory was on the map.
Emporia Gazette. The Republic cer
tainly has done the best it could to
Iut Empory on the map, but Neosho
county will appreciate it if the Ottawa
paper will not unload any more dead
cnes down this way. Chanute Trib
une. And just yesterday a Chanute
chap came all the way to Emporia to
gel him a wife. Emporia Gazette.
GL0E SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.
And a good many mistake loud clothes
for good clothes.
A visitor with a grip ten inches Ions
frequently overstays one with a trunk.
A rreat deal of the noliteness in this
world is devoted to boosting the trade.
There are two kinds of talkers: one who
knows and the one who thinks he knows.
A woman thinks she can solve anv sort
of a situation by just "washing out a few
11I1I1SS.
There are a number of .iov rides vou
don't hear of: the ones which aren't fol
lowed by a funeral.
The gent who wears a rain coat is In
clined to feel a bit superior to the one
who depends on an umbrella.
Ab. Adkins says the reason he left ths
firm was that it usuallv rained Sundays
when he could rest without it.
Servants of the People are clso inclined
to be stuck up about it more frequently
than the rest of the hired help.
Link Preston: "I did not consider his
f.f hopeless until I saw him making a
watch charm out ot a peach, seed."
Whv does a tank town actor want you
to think he came from New York? It is
where one Is that counts.
While we try riot to be finicky no for
eigner with whiskers should ever try kUs
ing us because that is the custom in his
country.
Speaking, as so many do. of the con
servation of natural resources, there are
the kisses the women bestow upon eacli
other.
An Englishman says American men are
henpecked, or words to that effect. And
Englishmen have made several other
good guesses.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Fat people are not always jolly any
more than lean people always are lenient.
Even the girl who- never gets any let
ters is always on the lookout for the male.
Soma kisses are merely subterfuges to
find out whether hubby 'has been drink
ing. Jim "Lazicus rays he's looking for an
opening." Tim "What with, a corkscrew
or a pair of jacks?"
Wigwagg "I don't owe a dollar in the
world.' Borrowell "Gee, but your friends
must be dead on to you."
Belle "What do you think of Maude's
antique china?" Nell "I don't think it's
all it's cracked up to be."
I J0ViaijlL ENTRIES
BY THE WAY
BY HARVET PARSONS.
Thaw, according to one specialist,
is a victim of "progressive insanity."
Meaning, possibly, that form of de
mentia Americana that was so preva
lent last year. But it is the first hint
that Thaw's bug was politics. ... '
Joe Bristow is the only member of
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nerve iu puiciiase a uuuse aii .-i m fe
ton, and now Kansas is wondering
whether it is a case of exaggerated
optimism or a speculation in Wash
ington property.
. The one-legged man who has chal
lenged Tom Botkin to a swimming
race has something to back his con
tention that it is easier to swim with
one leg than .with two, the one
legger being closer to the fish, who
has no legs at all, but is some swim
mer at that.
If lobsters sold two for a . quarter,
the favorite after-dark, food of the
great white way would be something
else. There isn't much to a lobster
except the price.
The principal trouble with a lot of
people is that they always underscore
the "I" in their conversation.
Howard, which was made famous
by the Polk Daniels family, is taking
on the characteristics of its leading
citizen when its saturnalia of hoss
racing laps over onto a week of Chau
tauqua. Polk Daniels is both a good
sport and a Sunday school teacher.
Mr. Hearst observes that the Mex
icans have killed over a hundred of
our citizens, and we stand for it. As
a further prediction, we offer that we
will continue to stand for it. The ne
gotiations necessary to cease stand
ing for it would interfere with some
Chautauqua dates.
It is agin the law to burn leaves,
and agin the law to put leaves in the
gutters. About the only way to -get
rid of leaves and remain on good
terms with the city administration is
to eat them for breakfast food.
We observe that the reporter on
the Morning Squash took our advice :
to print a little something about Gene
Stotts being an ex-member of the
big 3. "We are pleased to note that
the reporter in question is open to
suggestion.
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULTON.
That Vacation.
Same old skeeters.
Same old chuck.
Same old fishing,
Same old luck.
Same old beaches.
Same old skies.
Same old peaches.
Same old flies.
Same old dances,
Same old moons,
Same old string bands,
Same old tunes.
Same old hammocks,
Same old swings,
Same old camp fires,
Same old things,
Same old widows,,-
Same old girls.
Same old face tints,
Same old curls.
Same old row boats.
Same old sands,.
Same old blisters
On the hands.
; Same old backache,
Same old fleas;
Same old gossip.
Same old wheeze.
Two weeks' outing
Fades from view;
Same vacation.
Nothing new.
The Diary or a Boneheml.
At about 4 o'clock this morning the
side of the tent began to move. I
could see it as I lay on my back on
my pile of hay. My wife could see
it move, too, and she placed her elbow
between my third and fourth ribs and
pushed.
First I thought it was a wild ele
phant seeking admission to our tent
and then I thought of more horrible
things including rhinoceri, hippopotomi
and tigers.
I might have known that it would
not be any of these animals as our
tent was pitched only four or five
miles from town. It has been one of
the cute ideas of my wife to spend a
night or two in a tent to escape the
hot weather in town. . We were both
scared stiff before wo had got the
tent ud.
We lay and watched the uncanny
motion of the side of the tent. It
looked as though some animal were
trying to push our temporary abode
over and trample us to death.
"Get the shotgun and - shoot," said
my wife.
"If I shoot, I will spoil the tent," I
replied. "It is only a rented tent and
I don't care to buy it." '
"Take the hunting knife and stab
the animal through ' the . tent," was
her next proposition. ;
That " sounded good until I ha.ppened
to think that, if I stabbed the animal
through the tent, I would cut . the
tent. .
"Not on your life,'' I replied. "I am
not paying, for any tents this year
with the tariff agitation on and busi
ness conditions unsettled the way they
are." '
"I have an inspiration," said my
wife. '-'..-'...
"Take the baseball - bat;" she con
tinued, "and soak, the animal on the
bean the next time he rubs against
the tent. ' Then you1 will kill the ani
mal and nob spoil the tent." . .--"..
I knew it would be a-mussy job at
best, but I went around on my hands
and knees until I found the baseball
bat that my son had brought along
on the trip. I crept back. The side
of the tent moved again and I lambas
ted the life out of it right where it
moved.
There was a lightened "Moo" and
a crashing ,of the underbrush which
sounded like the entire Bulgarian army
chasing the entire Greek army through
a row of hothouses. "
The farmer's cow had come-to pay
us a visit and, finding some hay stick
ing out from under the tent, had eaten
most of our bedding by pulling it out
a little at a time.
It cost me J25 to square matters
with the farmer. The tent was knock
ed over and we had to cut our way
out with knives and my wife has ben
in the hospital ever since with a
malady which borders on nervous pros
tration. The next time I desire a taste of
camp life, I am going to Hid fare
well to all of my friends and enlist
in the army.
BEYOND THE SIGHT.
The city lights are bright with flame
where up and down the street
The city's gleam flares up the way for
countless drifting feet:
And yet, I often turn away, where through
a window pane
A dim. old-fashioned candle light shines
down a country lane.
'.i Tie city has a thousand ' songs a multi
tude to sing
A thousand voices sweep the night where
dim cathedrals ring:
And yet I often turn away where all the
morning through
A mocking bird calls back to me across
the silver dew.
The city has a mighty voice a siren voice
that calls
Where Fame is pleading night and day
within her star-crowned walls:
And yet I often turn away where in the
fading light
A waiting mother used to call her boy in
from the night.
Grantland Rice, in the New York Mail.
IE
IHE EVENING STO&Y
Jones Gets a Jolt.
(By Jeanne Olive Liozlaux.)
In the private office the junior part
ner, John Lawless, and Miss Bessie
Compton, the head stenographer, were
deep in what looked like private con
versation. At least it looked like it
to Jones. Jones delicately withdrew,
leaving his mere business matters for
a season more convenient. Jones was
head manager, but he was not what
Bub, the office . boy, called a "buttin
ski.'' Jones was observing, romantic.
It was a half hour before Miss Bessie
with her golden head and her upright,
slim figure, her reserve, and her note
book, emerged again into . the com
mon herd of workers. Jones looked
up from his desk and sighed for a year
he had been sighing whenever she came
into sight or Into mind. Thus far his
sighing had done him no good nobody
knew, nobody cared. Jones was mod
est. Now, he secretly searched the girl's
face for signs of unhappiness and
thought that he founa them in her
pallor, the faint violet shadows be
neath her long lashed eyes. From
pitying himself he began to pity her.
No, she was not for him, but if she
wanted the junior partner she should
have him. He, Jones, would see to it
that Mr. John Lawless took due note
of her.
So Jones began his interference man
fully. Things began to work for Bes
sie, mysteriously. One hot August
morning a fresh red rose lay on her
desk when she came to the office.
She seized it, daintily loved it. won
dered audibly what . "perfectly dear"
person had dropped It there, and final
ly set it up before her in a bottle of
fresh water; Jones brought her the
water. He smiled, but he shed no
light on the matter of the giver.
Later, when he privately talked
plans with Mr. John, he carelessly of
fered that gentleman a fresh red bud
for his coat lapel. Mr. John was pleas
ed, but busy. He thanked Jones, thrust
the blossom into his buttonhole,
promptly forgot it, and went on talk
ing about the advertising campaignJ
but Bessie saw that the mate to her
rose was in his . coat. She flushed.
Jones saw her, and she met his eye
and flushed more deeply.
Later she found a box of chocolates
in her inner drawer, and then a small
but perfect bunch of violets. From
day to day these offerings multiplied.
They cost Jones money, but he was
willing to make the girl happy if . he
could. He noted that now she said
nothing about these, mysterious gifts,
but bore them slyly away when she
went home. She was hiding her rom
ance from office eyes, but he saw her
give an odd look now and then at Mr.
John Lawless odd. because the gaze
was .perfectly serious, searching and
not particularly pleasant.
His harder task was to find out
where Mr. . Lawless stood. Lawless
was no snob he would marry any
girl who pleased him. He was not yet
very rich, belonged to a family no bet
ter than that of Bessie, and was a very
decent fellow. Jones knew this, and
wont on scheming. First he complain
ed of the crowding of the middle office,
second he got a better position for Miss
Hemingway on the quiet, and
since her succeesor was "green," Miss
Bessie had to take alL the junior part
ner's dictation. Finally he managed to
get that gentleman to have the girl's
desk in the private office. When she
moved in, Bessie did a queer thing she
stopped at Jones' desk, leaned over it,
and, looking straight into his shy but
delighted eyes. remarked tersely:
"You're an awful big fool, Herbert
Jones!"
Jones curled up like a caterpillar on
a hot shovel but he had seen the quick
tears in her eyes as she turned away.
He was perfectly sure that she thought
the junior partner infinitely her super
ior He would fix that up the Junior
partner would have to see what was
what, that was all. Any sweet girl,
reflected Jones, is superior to the aver
age man.
Jones did not suspect that Mr. Law
less enjoyed him immensely as a "char
acter," for his naive goodness, his sim
plicity and unselfishness, or that the
gentleman often led him on in con
versation to get the unworldiness of ,his
viewpoint. - Late one hot afternoon
when business was slack, and after
Jones had spent all his week's pocket
money for a box of expensive French
bonbons left surreptitiously in the
Idol's desk, Mr. Lawless called Jones
Into the inner office. He told Miss
Bessie Compton that she could go
home, and started conversation. He
wondered what Jones thought about
all sorts of things finally they touch
ed woman in business. Mr. Lawless
was wise and cynical but Jones stood
his ground he deplored the necessity
of a woman's presence in an office.
"They belong in homes," he per
sisted. "Look at any girl well. Miss
Compton. for instance. She's pretty,
she's sweet and good. And she's do
mestic. I know her folks, sir. So
do you your father knew hers. She
has" to work but she'd be perfect
as a wife. I know she would
slie "
Jones grew crimson, while Mr.
Lawless looked out of the window and
blew some smoke rings into the sul
try air. -.He turred and gave Jones
a peculiar look.
"You art perfectly right, Jones.
She would make a good wife she
ought to - be married this minute.
There's no sweeter girl on the earth,
I am sure." His voice was dreamy.
"Yes, she ought to be married. Say
Jones, what about giving Boardman
& Vesey that new" contract, eh?" He
changed the subject with lightning ra
pidity. Jones smiled to himself a
wan smile.
And the next afternoon, when the
heavens opened with almost a flood
Mr. Iawless did an unheard-of thing
waited until the whole force was
ready to leave the office, and then
he got Mis3 Bessie under his um
brella and saw her to the car.
Jones dilated. He, himself, had
brought this about. Romance had
begun. He sighed a lot those days,
worked like a Turk and showered his
divinity with gifts sure that she
thought they came from John Lawless.
Jones's jolt came suddenly at 9
.v.- , mnt-niTicr t in
August. Half the force was on a va-
cation and the other half was men-
tally absent. Everybody felt cross
after a sleepless, sweltering night,
Miss Bessie had marched languidly
into the inner office, nodding to those
she passed save Jones. Nowadays
she did not speak to Jones nobody
to Jones nobody
knew why. She slammed
k- flnnp.
Presently Mr. Lawless, tall and lazy J "mmf' of Kan-
looking, perfectly groomed, perfectly there is the nubbin . f rd I Nev-
good natured, sauntered in 'after her. rfn he ?Wstory was the state
He nad a flower .in his buttonhole bLterable to withstand a drouth,
and a song on his lips, and they were fore did her fighting spirit
all irritated at his calmness. He, to the front more than today,
also, shut the door. xever before has Kansas planned for
In a moment came a strange mur- rext vear and the years to come as she
mur of voices. The murmur rose to ji, do'ing this year. The long days
anger. And when at length the door wh'ch have passed, rainless, hot, blrs
opened. Mr. Lawless spoke a single tering. crop withering days misht
word from the dcorway. I hove crushed the spirit of some peo-
"Jones:" Jones, for once a bit de- I pie. but not of the race of Kansans.
Hant, thoroughly tired and wretched. They have not cried about it. TMy
obeyed the summons. Things were never peeped. They are not pesstrnis
now on his nerves. He entered the tic. You hear no "belly-aching, vo
room and stood like a culprit before crvirsr, and wailing and gnashing oi
the sngry Bessie. Her face was teeth. Instead you get a smile, aac.
blazing with wrath, but tears stood they tell you of what the state nas
in her eyes. . done under the adverse conditions ana
,"l a. not n Mis, Bessie! In-
J Know notning about it! Jones
is manager here suppose vou talk it
over with Jones?" Suddenly his
voice became strangely gentle.
"Jons, I suspect, is a sort of a fool,
at times. But he is the right sort of
a fool he will straighten it out."
Mr. Lawless could not repress a little
grin. Jones, I guess you kind of got
things mixed up in your ideas." The
junior partner walked out and closed
the loor after him.
Bessie turned like a little tigress on
the unfortunnta Jcnes. "I'm tired of
thi3 everlasting sentimental trash in
my desk. Where does it come from'
I've given the flowers to a little1
crippie neighbor girl, and the candy
to wnoever wanted it. I wouldn't
touch it! I ycu I actually thought
Is was Mr. Lawless, and I picked
into :iim about it! Ha says he didn't
do it. Who did?"
"I did." Jones replied, calmly, but
not meekly. "I guess I am a off
the track. You see, Bessie," he said
steadily, "I love you myself, but I
thought you cared for him. I wanted
to help you. I put those things
there I '
"Yes, and you threw me straight
at his head! I just had the satisfac
tion of telling him that I wouldn't
have him if he was the only man on
earth! I'm glad I said it before I
knew that he didn't want me! He
was as flat about it as I A pretty
mess you've got me into!" Again her
eyes brimmed with tears.
"I'm sorry," he murmured, "but I
love you " Then he caught the
new look in her sweet face. She
laughed once more, that tremulous
little laugh, and she held out her
hands to him.
"Oh, you idiot of a boy," she
breathed. "Why couldn't you ask me
if I love you?" Jones, once he got
a point, always got it thoroughly.
There was no power on earth now to
save Miss Bessie Compton from his
embrace. (Copyright. 1913 by the
Newspaper Syndicate.)
EVENING CHAT
BY Rt'TH CAMERON.
The Other Side.
. To have someone write, "Thank
you, Ruth Cimeron, you express just
my sentiments," is of course a great
pleasure to me.
Being extremely human I like to be
applauded. Nevertheless I think I
can say honestly that it is almost as
great a pleasure to have a letter . greatly lessened the difference in favor
friend differ with me and write a I of tne stefm vessel. The oil engine
lettei- like the following: takes but little space, as compared
"You say in list evening's paper, with the machinery on board steam
'Almost all women are born sym- ships, the motive power is instf.ntly
bolists. If more men would realize available, the cost is trifling while in
this fact we should have happier mar
riages.'
"This- is one of the instances where
I disngrce with you.
"If womn were less given to
symbolism we shculd have happier
marriages.
"Tne trouble is that most wives ex-
pect too much of their husbands. They
want their husbands to be continually
at their beck and call. They do not
realize that their husbands work all
day to keep up the home, that they
share their earnings with their wives
and provide them with clothes and
pay for their amusements. Of course
this is at it should be. The wife in
return looks after the house and her
husband's welfare.
"But do not most wives I am not
a. ,s .ciii,
time during the day to enjoy them
selves? Can they not go to luncheons,
card parties and matinees with their
friends? Have they not enough leisure,
even if they do their own work, to
receive friends, or to sit down for an
hour to read a book?
"Then why should not a husband
be entitled to spend a free afternoon
at the ball game or in a tramp into
the country with home friends?
I have a friend whose husband is
a passionate huntsman. When they ' aeciareci tnat he had seen a light which
were engaged he said to her: 'There convinced liim that Socialism must be
is one thing which I shall never give stamped out at all hazards, but the
up, that is my hunting. I go hunting iron hand failed to accomplish the n
or on a cross country tramp with tended purpose. It fell palsied w'.ien
some friends every Saturday and Sun
day, and shall continue to do so af
ter I am married. I hope you will
not object to this.'
"Being a sensible girl she said she
would not mind, but would enjoy her
self in her own way.
They have been married over two
years now and are the happiest couple
I know of. My friend told me only
tne otner oay tnat tney have never
had a quarrel. Almost every week-end
he goes on his hunting trips, she
spends those days with relatives and
friends, and when they come home
Sunday e'ening they have lots of
things to tell each other.
"Besides they often go out to
gether and have many good times.
"Another young friend is just the
opposite. She would not stand for
anything like that. When he goes
withjut her she makes herself miser
able by wondering whose company
he prefers to hers. She is always feel
ing hurt over some imaginary neglect
and though they have hardly been
married a year, they have already
had many serious quarrels."
Wrhich of these wives will make
her marriage a success?
Anxious Mistress "Jane, have vou given
the fish any fresh water lately?" Jane
'No mum. They haven't drank the wa
ter 1 gave them last month yet." Puck.
"It Is true that both your husband and
the man who lives next door to vou have
failed in business?" "Yes, but Ned's fail
ure Isn't nearly so bad as Mr. Navbor's.
He failed for fifty cents on the dollar,
while my husband failed for onlv ten
cents on the dollar." Boston Transcript.
KANSAS COMMENT
"We traveled 267 miles, stopped at
.-. ..til In osach (ITIP an hOUT,
e n(j we saw but one covered .P101!1;
wagon, and it was goinjr west.
was said by a prominent Kansas m"
the other day in telling or ms r i
through Kansas from Merlp.f,l '
Liberal. And it forcibly tells tjl6"
fighting spirit n'""ea .
right now unaei mo
tions brought on by tne aroum vl
! ot the plans ror .oumy
staving right by the ship. A drouthy
vear such as Kansas is Just experi
encing is the exception. They know
that in the other seasons to come
there will be rain and blossoming
fields and great fruitage just as the
etate has enjoyed many times in tn
past. And here is a little story to
how that the Kansan wnu --.
virtually all of his crops, who has been
bard hit, whose eropsJmve burned up
doesn't want help given him, he
simplv wants the other fellow who c-in
' help him a little to join with him on
next year's prospects. A western
Kansas farmer, it was related, who
lost his crops, was asked if he wanteu
ar,y free seed wheat. "What I would
like" lie mid "would be lor soma
one to furnish the seed wheat and
take in return one-fourth of ner.t
vtar's crop. I want him to take a
chance with me." North Shawnee
Chief.
A QUEER WORLD.
A citizen remarked that this is a
queer world. When the floods were
tearing up Indiana and Ohio last spring
people here were thankful they did not
live in such a wet country. Now they
are sighing for some of that moisture.
Things don't seem to be distributed
exactly right, but perhaps after all ev
erything is for the best. The garden
of Eden was closed up a long while
ago, and since then mortals have had
to hustle for what they get. Some
times it is discouraging, but wfcio shall'
say that we are not stronger awid bet
ter on account of the burdens we learn
to bear? Wellington Journal.
I ROM OTHER PENS
i
SAILS VERSUS STEAM.
If the winds were constant, and if a
large force of men to "work ship" must
not be taken along, paid and fed, wind
power might have competed more suc
cessfully with steam power in carrying
trade on the sea. But the steamship
could make much better time between
ports, and required fewer men for the
same carrying capacity, and the un
equal contest appeared certain to end
in the disappearance of sailing ships
from dcepwater service, while the
coastwise tailing craft gave way to
the tugs ami their lines of barges. But
the application of machinery ha.s re
duced the number of men necessary to
manage the rigging of a sailing vessel.
and the auxiliary oil engine for use in
1 calm or other time of necessity has
use and there is no necessity for keep
ing fires burning. With .hese new ap
pliances, it is probable that the day of
the wind-jammer has not altogctii' r
passed. In fact, it is significant that
three sailing vessels, two of which ::ie
the largest of their class, having a car-
I rying capacity of about 8,000 tons each.
have been chartered by a single firm
of merchants in China. They are to
load from China and Japan for Balti
more or New Y'ork, coming around iy
the Cape of Good Hope. Manchester
Union.
II ERR BEBEL.
A distinguished man was' lost to Ger
many and to the world in the death of
the Socialist. Bebel. When he spoke
li'i i r.vin Tl-1..1iw1 in. 1 . . . . . .. . 1 . : .
teneri attentively. He wa a foll,,u r
Marx and Engel. and the leader of the
Socialist party for a long time. He and
his compatriot. Liebknecht, were t!ic
only two members of the reiclistag who
voted against fiscal credits for carry
ing on the war with France. He won
international notoriety by a terrific
speech which he delivered in 1ST1
against the annexation of Alsace-Lor
raine, and in favor of a Paris commune.
' Bismarck was attracted by Bebel. and
the great chancellor passed away and
ever since Socialism has been steadily
gaining ground, until now it has h"t
least one-third of the legislative
strength of Germany. Bebel possessed
a wonderfully alert mind, and an Intel
lectual iecunrmy rarely equaled. In
spite of his radicalisms and rantings
' he was irreproachably honest nnri ..,.,
. the respect of those who most bitterlv
opposed his policies. Bebel might have
ueen caneu tne Senator Tillman of
Germany. Memphis News-Scimitar.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
tFrom the Chicago News.J
The liar has lots of competition,
legs m0re blockh!aa's than wooden
Trust the budding orator to deliver a
flowery npeeeh.
-But jt Is the natural bent of some men
to be broke.
Men waste too much good energy in
making fools of themselves.
"There's many a trip 'twixt the cup and
the lip." says the old toper.
Almost any man can acquire popularitv
if he is willing to pay the price.
It is better to miss some things as they
go than to take them as they come.
Every rich man imagine,, he would en
Joy neiping his poor kin if he hasn't any.
' takes a man of strong will power to
look unconcerned when his wife tella him
he has been talking in his sleep.
The crowd in the parlor consisted of a
man. a girl and a lamp. "Two is com
pany," protested the man, whereuion tho
lamp obligingly went out.
, MS5B-,s,Bhe a d conversational
ly; .Mrlrie-0.' 1 couldn't get her
to talk about anybody I knew.' Judsa.