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THE TOPEKA OAJLY STATE JOUENAIr-FEIDAY EVENING, . SEPTEMBER 19. 1913-
By FRANK P. HACLEXXAN.
(Entered July 1. 1875, as second-class
matter at the postolTlee at Topeka, Kan.
u;-der the act of congress.
VOLUME XXXV No. 226
Official State Paper.
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OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news r-
mnization tor tne exclusive iinrnuju
bobllcatlon in Tooeka.
The news Is received In The State Joor-
aal building over wires for this sole pur
pee.
Another comet has been discovered,
heading this way. But, having sur
vived Halley's comet, who cares?
' Still, telephone operators probably
have more than a fifth-grade child's
knowledge of the vocabulary of irrl
tation.
i Only a few of the 200,000 peo
pie that daily attend the baseball
games In this country can 'be classed
among the idle rich.
If congress would only vote to bring
American refugees back from Europe
at government expense, foreign travel
would be greatly facilitated.
; "What's the matter with the cru
saders against football? They seem
to be more than dilatory this year in
beginning their campaign.
. Somebody has discovered by experi
ments that deep wells are safer. Pret
ty soon some experimenter will advise
folk to build their windmills tall.
One more tally for women's rights.
A Washington police judge has de
rided that a man can not wear his
wife's false teeth, even if he did pay
for them.
' Lf Mrs. Pankhurst wishes to add
eclat to her American tour by giving
exhibitions of window smashing, the
necessary stage properties will gladly
be provided.
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Chicago's bandits are becoming more
careful. They've taken to wearing
masks. Maybe they, haven't been able
to fix tVings yet irtth'the Chicago po
licewomen. 2- -
Further evidence of the fine gain in
Topeka's population during the past
year is to be found in the fact that
there Is an Increase in this fall's school
enrollment of 600 pupils over the figures
for last year.
Diggs and Caminetti have each been
sentenced to a term in prison, but the
accessories to their crime have been
permitted to go to their homes. This
seems to be a little better than equal
rights for women.
Reports from Washington indicate
that while the teacher was away the
children did not play. President Wil
son returned to his desk after a few
days outing to find that congress ha("
been tolerably busy during his ab
sence. Ducks have begun their flight to
the south. And the fact that they
make this vicinity one of their impor
tant stopping points, is not much of a
feather in the caps of Topeka gunmen.
However, it gives the latter a good
opportunity to exercise their aim.
Rain seems to qualify as a sword of
the two-edged variety. Lack of it put
the jinx on Kansas crops and now the
liberal supply of it is reported to have
spoiled for fodder purposes the cut and
standing corn in the fields by causing
It to mold.
William Allen White "is notifying
the erstwhile Progressives in Kansas
that they must follow the straight and
narrow Bull Moose path if they are to
expect his favor. But then it is the
people of Kansas and not Mr. White
who vote men into office and keep
them there.
One of California's popular sports
appears to be confined to attempts to
"get" General Harrison Gray Otis with
a bomb. But the sturdy old warrior
And veteran newspaper man seems to
enjoy a charmed life. Which is Just
as it should be.
. Candidates for the prize of $2,500
that has been offered by the Los An
geles boosters for a song expressing
all the glories of southern California,
will do well to leave out lines referring
to the beauties of glistening frost on
golden oranges. In fact, the prize
winner will probably be the genius
who .composes a jingle where every
other line will rhyme with climate.
Mayor Cofran's historical endeavors
are highly original, at any rate. He
has unearthed an Irish newspaper
which shows the picture of a house
in Cavan county, Ireland, that pur
ports to be the birthplace of General
Phil Sheridan. Most of the authorities
fix the birthplace of Sheridan at Al
bany, N. T but one or two designate
U at Somerset, O.
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION .
' Not so long ago William Randolph
Hearst's newspapers suggested a solu
tion of the temperance and liquor prob
lem, which was properly characterized
by them as one of the greatest nation
al questions. They urged the 20,000
newspapers of the country to Join
hands in educating the people to de
mand legislation that would place
whisky, gin and other concoctions hav
ing a high percentage of alcohol In the
same class with opium, morphine and
other destructive drugs and poisons;
and, on the other hand, permit the
sale, under reasonable regulation, of
"mild stimulants" such as beers and
light wines that contain less than 8
per cent alcohol. It was argued that
indulgence In such drinks was prac
tically harmless, as was evidenced by
the real "temperance" that prevails in
such countries where this indulgence is
general.
But almost coincident with this sug
gestion from Mr. Hearst came the news
from Germany that Kaiser Wilhelm
had become a teetotaler, because he
had become convinced from persona!
observation and experience that the
drinking of any kind of a beverage
with alcohol in it is harmful, that it
is injurious to the Individual and an
obstructive factor In the development
of a nation.
Since the beginning of its modern
history Germany and beer have been
considered almost as being synony
mous. To think of a German in his
fatherland .without his beer mug handy
is almost to picture an anomaly. Beer
drinking bouts, instead of football and
baseball like In this country, have ever
been the chief sport among the cadets
and students in the German, institu
tions of higher learning. Until re
cently Kaiser Wilhelm has been a mod
erate drinker of alcoholic Deverages
himself. . It wasn't so many years ago
that he gave voice to the sentiment:
The German must always have a lit
tle alcohol." And the German people
as a whole have always been famed for
being a nation of "moderate" drinkers.
the bulk of them touching nothing
stronger than beer and the lightest of
wines.
But even this sort of "moderation"
leads to drunkenness and its attendant
evils, as some statistics recently garn
ered in Germany demonstrate. They
show that more than 60 per cent of the
insane in that country, 52 per cent of
the epileptics, 46 per cent of the crim
inals and 82 per cent of the Immoral
women have been born of drunken par
ents. Further, these statistics snow
that drink In Germany, where "moder
ation" in drinking rules, mind you, is
the cause annually of 1,600 suicides,
1,300 accidents, 30,000 cases of delirium
tremens and insanity and 180,000
crimes.
Perhaps It Is these rather startling
statistics that have had something to
do with convincing the Kaiser that the
so-called moderate use of beer . and
light wines Is not as harmless as it has
been generally believed to be.
LIFE INSURANCE. , ,
In the current issue of The Outlook
there is an interesting and instructive
discussion of the relation between life
nsurance and the people. A part of
it is as follows:
Life insurance is a form of business
which involves great social benefit and
great social responsibility. No better
confirmation of the truth of this state
ment can be found than in the official
attitude of two of the foremost civil
ized nations of the world towards life
insurance. Both Germany and Great
Britain, by making certain forms of
life insurnace compulsory, have rec
ognized the power of life insurance to
promote social welfare and national
stability- Whatever is done by expert
and intelligent men in this country to
promote a knowledge among the peo
ple of the sound principles of life in
surance is a public service.
For this reason the convention at
Atlantic City next week of the Na
tional Association of Life Underwrit
ers may easily be, and we hope it will
be, one of the important conferences
of the summer season. A well-known
member of the association, Mr. War
ren M. Horner, a writer of recognized
experience on insurance topics, in
forms us that the National Association
of Life Underwriters has recently or
ganized a bureau of education and
conservation for the dissemination ot
non-partisan information of fact and
interest to the public on insurance
matters in general. "This bureau,"
says Mr. Horner, "will co-operate with
institutions of learning, public and pri
vate, to promote insurance education
better fitting the younger generation
to buy life insurance intelligently or
to engage in the business as a vocation.
This bureau is an institutional move
ment prompted by legitimate practical
business motives and an altruistic de
sire on the cart of the leading agents
of the country to render more efficient
service to the public at large, and cre
ate a better spirit of understanding be
tween the people on one side and life
insurance on the other."
If this bureau fufills the function
thus outlined by Mr. Horner, if its
animating spirit is not to garner more
premiums or write a greater volume of
life, insurance, but to insure we pur
posely lay emphasis on the word in
sure more people against the priva
tions of death or of old age, it will per
from a great and useful work.
Life insurance has been far from
properly understood in its economic
and beneficent relation to the people.
It is one of the greatest agencies in the
conservation of human life, for the
broad-minded and the properly edu
cated insurance man is of necessity
profoundly interested in the establish
ing of adequate safeguards against ac
cidents and in the prevention of dis
ease. The public, and we regret to
say too many insurance agents,
have not sufficiently understood that
an individual on his physical and ma
terial side is a machine, and a frail
one at that, and as such has a definite
but perishable value, which must be
sustained and protected during tha
period of activity, and which must be
Insured against loss by death or wear
ing out in old age.
Too small a percentage of life In
surance agents themselves recognize
that they are called to a work of large
import and have the opportunity of
rendering a great service to humanity.
A life insurance agent who does not
understand the economic application
of what he Is doing and rise to its pro
fessional attainment is a positive detri
ment to a community. We have the
authority of Mr. Horner himself for
saying that the life insurance com
panies "are as babes in the wood in
the method of training and appoint
ing agents." The states are equally
lax and unscientific in licensing the
agents that the companies aDDOint
The proper and adequate purchase of
a lire insurance nolicv calls for a Dro
fessional service personally rendered
Dy a trained individual possessing in
tegrity and intelligence of the highest
order.
Life insurance, it follows from the
foregoing, is a public, or, at any rate,
a semi-public, utility. But it can be
carried on by private initiative
energy, and administration under
government regulation better than by
government ownership and operation,
In other words, the relation of the
government to life insurance should
bo analogous to its relation to the
railways.
If the principle of government reeu
lation as opposed to government oper
ation or lire insurance Is accepted,
insurance managers and insurance
policyholders should agree on certain
features of the business which are
subject to government regulation and
should unite m seeing that regulation
is just and efficient.
JOURNAL ENTRIES
A contented man is usually satisfied
witn a hand to mouth existence.
Were charity always to begin at
home, there wouldn't be much left to
pass outside the family circle.
Most women splurge in the dress
line, not to attract the men, but to
arouse the envy of their sisters.
There must be little satisfaction to
the critics in the knowledge that it is
easier.to tear down than to construct-
A surgeon may leave a towel or a
pair of scissors in an incision but he
is seldom so careless as to leave any
thing in a patient's pocketbook.
JAYHAWKER JOTS
Dr. Stork is one of the physicians
practicing at Bird City.
As the Lenora News puts it: It did
not take Canada long to Thaw out.
As the Englewood Leader-Tribune
points out: The road to success is
paved with good advertisements.
If you insist on singing your own
praises, says the Kingman Journal,
you can generally depend on having
to sing a solo.
Editor Meadows of the Gaylord
Sentinel has noticed that the man who
lands near the top round too often
forgets the "little fellow" who helped
steady tne ladder.
ine Augusta Journal s idea of a
Christian is one who will take what
is coming to him without attempting
to nand it back to the donor with in
terest compounded semi-weekly.
"Freedom of the Press" demanded
by the American people doesn't mean
explains the Burr Oak Herald, that
the country newspapers should be
taken for years without being paid
tor.
Several of the retailers of milk have
decided to raise the price to seven cents
a quart, reports the Soldier Clipper and
it explains: This move is taken on ac
count of the high cost of living for the
cows.
' "Gasaway," the Gas Gulch corre
spondent of the Wilson County Citi
zen, declares that the only people who
can afford to tell the truth all the
time are those who don't care whether
they have any friends or not.
A newspaper, according to the Athol
Record, offered a prize for the best
answer to the conundrum, "Why is a
newspaper like a -woman?" The prize
was won by a boy, with the following
answer: "Because every man should
have one and not be running after his
neighbors'."
GLOSE SIGHTS
BT THE ATCHTBON GLOBE.
A good deal of time is wasted in talking
it over.
A man who knows good whisky from
bad is too darned smart.
If an actor is good enough, he doesn't
need to double In brass.
If your health Is good, the weather
won't make so much difference.
No man gets so good he doesn't want
his wife to be a shade better.
Some men Inherit their mean disposi
tions, and others ride motorcycles.
When a girl Is In love with her Art.
It means the right ' man hasn't put in
an appearance.
The man who loudly says he's the best
man of his weight is usually the guy that
takes the count.
Sometimes a man talks so much as to
make people regret the muzzles are most
ly made for dogs.
A well-bred person needn't devote his
spare time to telling about it, in order
to establish the fact.
Which looks worse: A man's knee or
a woman's elbow? We leave it to the
Lancaster Literary society.
It is hard for a man to maintain a
cheerful mood when his collar is melting
and running down his neck.
The conversation frequently lags, and
from certain scraps of it, it Is often en
titled to an extended vacation.
Advertising pays, although the fact that
the man who advertises for a wife gets
her, need not be taken as conclusive evi
dence. Although we wouldn't shatter anyone's
amateur standing, it may be said that the
star halfback finds it easy to work his
way through school.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
The self-made man never quite gets the
job finished.
And many a thoughtful toper gets fuller
than he thinks.
A man laughs at scars when a woman
throws things at him.
Some men have to marry for money or
get some other kind of a job.
The average man doesn't know how well
it pays to be polite to his wife.
Luck is the chaperon who has eyes that
see not and ears that hear not.
Matrimony is a bargain and somebody
gets the short end of every bargain.
Every girl screams on getting kissed by
a man but she usually does it Inwardly.
Occasionally a widow flirts with a mar
ried man merely to see what his wife
will do about it.
When two girls of the same dimensions
and general style of architecture are
chums they syndicate their clothes.
"My advice to you, sir," said the phy
sician, as he diagnosed the case of the
dyspeptic, "is to change your hotel. Go
over to the Derringdale and live for
awhile." "Why, doctor," said the patient,
"the food at the erringdale isn't any bet
ter than that at the Merrington!" "I
know that," said the physician: "but the
Derringdale is run on the European plan,
and you have to pay fr what you eat
there, sir." Judge.
f RY THE WAY j
BT HARVEY P ARSONS.
Congress, like a vaudeville audience,
is easily satisfied, as proven by some
of the "vode" comedy that is permit
ted and the ("laughter") insertions in
the congressional records. And, that
being the case, whv didn't Senator T.
E. Burton, when he attacked the
Glass bill, announce that he "could
see throught it and that it should be
broken," thus winning undying fame
as a congressional humorist.
Rotten, of course, but the records
are full of ("pause for prolonged
laughter") bunk m connection with
JuBt such inane slush.
A number of briny tears are beinr
shed over the canning of one Bill
Mackey of Leavenworth, who is
spoken of as an unusually well-posted
and competent -official. His compe
tence is fully recognized by the ad
ministration, and is, incidentally, the
cause for his canning. The adminis
tration spent several weeks in a vain
effort to understand why so compe
tent and well posted an official of the
opoosite political faith could ACCI
DENTALLY pull off so many differ
ent stunts to embarrass the adminis
tration.
And so they "tinned" him effi
ciency and all. Which should be a
warning to refrain from being too
blamed efficient. '
Other newspaper men enthuse, in
various degrees of enthusiasm, over
the report that Joe Mercer will be a
gubernatorial candidate. As yet, we
fail to enthuse. Outside of his "Bull"
tendencies, Hon. Mercer is a fine fel
low, and we should prefer that some
other Mooser be offered as a sacri
fice.
"She Is one of those human misde
meanors, says Mrs. Jack Supp, "who,
when her boob drags down a seven-
dollar Jardiniere at some other worn
an's house, rushes to Precious and
squeaks: "Oo-o! Did it fall on
Mamma's Darling? Don t step on the
pieces it might hurt oo s foot!
Somev talk of "detaining" Mrs.
Pankhurst when she lands, but that
would be the height of rudeness. Bet
ter far to offer her extra facilities for
moving out again.
Case of the ' California gink- who
courted his wife in Esperanto natural
ly raises the question: is there any
place where the divorce and alimony
comes in Esperanto?
Rains were rawther late, but in
plenty of time to save next year's
dandelion and cocklebur crop.
The report that Taft has lost 80
pounds since he moved out of 'the
White House may be true, but it may
be true also that his weight at tha
time included the heavy duties of his
office.
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BT ROT K. MOULTON.
According to Uncle Abner.
Anse Frisby says he doesn't fell strong
enough to go to a summer resort this
year. He is going to stay home, where
he can rest up.
We never saw a. traveling man who
pinned much faith-ni corn beef hash.
A feller who has' got. a marriageable
daughter and doesn't buy a porch swing
s guilty ot a serious oversignt.
There may be some fellers in this world
who don't save their bum nickels and
plugged quarters for the street car con
ductor, but if so, we never knew one of
em. .
Lem Purdy says he would as soon be
run over and killed as to be scared to
death by one of them squakin' auto
horns.
it 1s eettin' so that employees of tne
guv ment nave to get aown to worn wiib.i
the whistle blows.
I never see a time when the corn was
tall enGiiirh ei-certln' when it was too tall.
There are nlentv of other ways to be
onhappy without buym a motorooat.
vilest Amv rane e. our viuiuKe u i ii 1111-:; ,
s alwavs up-to-date. She is showing her
fall styles now. but not very many wom
en ore falling for 'em.
Hank Tumrns says nis mine "" t w
have no idee or the ntness or tnings.
Ho is havine the springnait now, away
along now in the middle of the Bummer.
Ti.ere ain't much use in tryin' to pound
Rny sense into a feller that parts his hair
in t..e middle and carries a cane during
-i Donsv THKhitts went to a finishing
school, it proved to " union
. . - 1 l .J .J - M.jck
s well as hers. .
t jtrir oava it takes a lot of sand
fer a feller to make a success In business
hoi-c anil Lem is right, providin'
the" busines's is the house plastern' busi
ness. The Diary of a Bonehead.
Being a sanitarian and a thorough
hoiiovor in the swat, l ouereu
children 1 cent a piece for all of the
Head flies they brought me. inai n
oat-iv in the season and if the sum
mer does not hasten to a conclusion
there will be a large sized plaster on
my house and lot.
I bought my four children some-of
those cut little wire screen contrap
tions with a handle on the end with
which to spank the flies.
I had to be away a week early in
the fly campaign and when I returned
I found a $90 imitation mahogany china
cabinet lying In ruins, a cheval glass
shattered, the glass front of the book
case looking like a greenhouse Just af
ter a hen's-egg hail storm and three
vases and two jardiniers gone to re
turn no more.
XT -I Kn.vVif m a a fn44- lo T
'"T . " jr 3 7 ti
containing 3,467 flies, according to his
own count, which I accepted as final
not being desirous of counting dead
flies the remainder of my lire.
Child No. 2 brought a two-quart pail
full of flies, which he had counted over
several times and found to total exact
ly 9,239.
Child No. 3 had 7,892 dead flies in
an old mustard pot and child No. 4
proudly exhibited 6,573, which he kept
in an empty flour sack. He said .he
had hoped to fill the sack but I came
home too soon.
It dawned upon me gradually that
I had made the bounty too large and
there seemed no technicality under
which I could escape.
Out in the shed, I found about 60
discarded pieces of sticky fly paper
which had been picked clean of flies
and the mystery of the marvelous
swatting by my children was explain
ed. I settled with them at 50 cents
on the dollar.
"But. why the broken furniture?" I
asked the youngest.
"That was only stage business," he
replied, "to make you .think that we
had done some swatting."
It does not look to me as though any
of my children will die in the poor
house, although the old man may.
"You say you called on husband at his
office? He's always so busy. Did you
have any trouble in seeing him?" "Yes,
at first. He was -sitting behind his desk
and I couldn't see him until he moved his
feet." Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1
CHILD LABOR,
Ah, who are these on whom the" "vital
bloom
Of life has withered to the dust of doom?
these little Dilerims. prematurely worn
And bent as if they bore the weight of
years?
These childish faces, pallid and forlorn,
Too dull for laughter and too hard for
tears? r
Is this the ghost of that insane crusade
i nat led ten thousand children long ago,
A flock or innocents, deceived, betrayed,
Yet pressing on through want and woe
To meet their fate, faithful and unafraid?
Nay, for a million children now
Are marching in the long, pathetic line,
With weary step and early wrinkled
brow;
And at their head appears no holy sign
Of hope in heaven; '
For unto them is given
No cross to Carry, but a cross to drag.
Before their strength is ripe they bear
The load of -labor, toiling underground
In dangerous mines, and breathing
heavy air
Of crowded shops; their tender lives are
bound
To service of the whirling, clattering
wheels
That fill the factories . with dust and
noise;
They are not girls and boys.
But little "hands,"' who blindly, dumb
ly feed
With their own blood the hungry god
of Greed.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, In "Who Follow
tne i? iag.
TNE EVENING STORY
Three Chairs.
(By Molly McMaster.)
As Enid ensconced herself in her
steamer chair for the return trip west
ward there was considerable martyr
dom expressed in her piquant face,
Her self-imposed exclusiveness was not
going to be pleasant, but it was nec
essary. She had decided, at the last
minute, to enter the big musical com'
petition going on at the conservatory
in Berlin. The eight days on the water
would be almost the remaining days
left to competitors and Enid deter
mined to send back a composition.
She gazed more or less wistfully at
the unusually interesting passenger list
and then cast a glance at the empty
chairs, one on each side of her own
She had engaged those chairs that she
might not be disturbed as she sat on
deck. ' The deck stewart had looked his
amazement when Enid had ordered the
names, Mr. John Doyle and Mr. Ed
ward Doyle placed upon the cards on
the backs of the chairs.
"At least," sighed Enid, "I am in
sured against bores."
She resigned herself to a voyage of
concentration on matters musical nor
did she dare raise her eyes to passers
by. Enid's eyes had a way of inviting
a second look and a second look meant
conversation which, if she intended to
enter the Berlin competition, must be
denied
During the first day out great books
on harmony and composition lay on
Enid's lap or on one of the vacant
chairs. She seemed not to hear the
slightest suggestion for a theme and
the notes she jotted down from time to
time were far from musically perfect.
She closed her eyes and tried to hear a
melody in the steady tramp of feet or
the chug of the engines.
Up on the forward deck George New
man interviewed the deck steward.
'Who do those chairs belong to
those on either side of the young lady
with the straw-colored hair and brown
coat? They are-- never occupied.".
Newman smiled his genial smile at the
steward.- -"
"The young lady engaged them, sir-
she 'ad to concentrate or" the stew
ard fumbled for added reasons and
ended with a grin. Newman put a half
crown in his hand and departed to the
library.
He came up a moment later and In
his hands were many magazines on
all of which he had written in large
letters the name John Doyle. Also on
his steamer rug he had put a tag bear
ing the same name. After that he went
along the deck and stopping at many
unoccupied chairs made a splendid ap
pearance of looking for his own.
When he reached the one beside Enid
he smiled as if in satisfaction and pro
ceeded to make himself comfortable,
taking infinite care to have the corner I
of his rug which bore the name near
the girl. Also he left his magazine
face upward on his lap so that the
name could not escape her eyes.
Enid had watched with gathering
mutiny the maneuvers of the man
whose long, lithe frame so amply filled
her own chair. She dared not turn and
accuse him of taking her chair, because
that would be an opening for conver
sation. Nor could she, after she had
seen the name on his books, feel angry
toward him. It was naturally not his
fault if she had chosen a name pos
sessed by a fellow traveler.
However, it was quite evident that
he was not going to disturb her by
talking. Enid sighed. There were
other ways of disturbing one besides
talking. She realized after a short
time that every slight movement on
his ptrt was going to prove interest
ing to her. She felt instinctively that
she would like John Doyle and it be
gan to irritate her that he continued
his absorbed thoughts with apparent
indifference to her nearness.
He got up later and strolled about
the deck. Enid noticed -with a sullen
sense of jealousy that he more than
once stopped to talk with - attractive
feminine travelers. . She tried des
perately to concentrate on her music,
but always he dominated her brain.
Never, in all her years, had she so
suddenly become interested in one of
the opposite sex. Perhaps they had
always come more than half way to
meet her. Yes, it was undoubtedly
only a sense of pique that hurt her.
During the afternoon he stood close
beside her talking with a beautiful
girl. En!d heard his low voiced
banter and the echo in a high treble
of the girl's. Suddenly Enid's cheeks
flushed and her eyes grew luminous.
A lightning flash of inspiration had
seized her. She would write a com
position called "Flirtation."
The genius in her was fired and
oblivious now to all save her work;
she heard only the low bass of the
man followed by. or mingling with,
the treblo and through it all, sup
porting it and lending a steady
rtrthn, the motion of the boat.!
-j ,11 ' " : . . . i
,I11U Unci Iit:r uicuiir, 1111 iijuc anu "ci
melody.
Her fountain pen splashed note upon
note acrcs the staff and Enid lay
back an hour or so later exhausted,
but with the pleasurable sensation of
having turned out a splendid piece
of work. No longer was she sullenly
jealous. Xo longer did she desire an
unoccupied chair on either side of her.
She wanted more than anything "else
to hear the sound of voices talking to
her.
She tucked her precious composi
tion within one of the great books on
harmony and . closed her eyes for a
moment's rest.
When she opened them the first
thing she saw was the owner of the
bass voice that had suggested her
music. A slow blush mounted her
cheeks "when" she realized that she
had been sleeping. As she awakened
fully to consciousness a smile both
appealing and direct was sent straight
into John Doyle's eyes. At least Enid
supposed him to be John Doyle. A
bare second later and she had surrep
titiously but very effectively loosened
her rugs so that she was exposed to
the chilling breezes.- -
"Shall I tuck you up again?" New
man asked with a smile that told him
her ruse was quite evident.
"Of course," she mocked daintily,
"or why should I have untucked my
self?" Newman laughed.
"I thought you were never going to
nnisn that beastly scribbling and come
back to earth," he said when he had
arranged her rugs.
I supose you mean back to sea.
laughed Enid. A moment later, when
sne had in a measure studied him an
his methods, she turned eyes that were
sugiitiy accusing run upon him, I din
not see tne name John Doyle on th
passenger list." she stated.
"Nor did I," Newman unblushingly
miormed her, "but when, one wants
something badly there is not so much
in a name, is there?" (Copyright,
ivis, Dy tne McClure Newspaper Syn
EVENING CHAT
BT RUTH CAMERON.
Being Discourteous to Children.
Courtesy is a beautiful thine
We all want our children to have'
courtesy and the concrete expression
on courtesy, good manners.
And yet how few na rent a ira hom
seives perrecuy courteous to their
children! How few. parents teach their
children good manners bv that hest of
an meuioas, example
a well-dressed, mnmntiv ,im
bred woman walked nast m-u- oronHn
the other day with a charming little
Bin. xne utile gin caught sight of a
pony arrazinK in a vacant- niv.
Mother! See the dear little pony." she
vaitimig noia or ner mother s
hand. But her mother, at the same
time, had caught sight of a woman in
an attractive frock and was regarding
mo ut wun tne calculating, ap
Kiupuauvs ey Wltn wnich wnmon
aiways study a new fashion on an
umer woman. Consequently. being
Miciemeu in more important things,
it was plainly impossible for her to
pay attention to what her little girl
o.yms. lea, aear," she mur
iuacu, wiuiuui looKine a.rnitnrt
iwr a moment taking her eye from the
interesting rrocK.
Now, of course, that mother la e-n
me to teacn ner little girl that it is
"U'1LB " sien and appear interested
wnen otner people are talking, but
wnat iorce win there be in that lesson
when it is so ill backed up by her own
ii eminent or tne child.
I have heard another mnthor
prove her enthusiastic little on a a,.
en times for interrupting when xnmn
ujio was speaKing and yet I have of
ten neara ner interrupt him.
Again, we an know that it Is
caruinai rule or good ma n nor.
one should not contradict. We do not
anuw our ennaren to contradict us.
we equauy carerul not to contra
uici tnem :
tattle cniidren and nlo- .niion
,1 .8USDect are far more open to
the influence of examnlo than tn v,
auinoriiy or precept. If parents real-
izeu now accurately their family life
was beinz mirrnnH In tha . w
a Ti rr --CZ a-"- "-
wif-a i 'J, t"o manners or.... their
children, I think they would be more
careful how they carried themselves
towara tneir children.
"The best -WAIT tn taal, 1.Mj
fear God," says Pelostozzi, "is to let
him see and hear a good Christian."
Even so. the bpst wov to ti. -
wmu n iuvb courresv tn tn no-
esy in your treatment of him.
Sun Worship In England.
A sect called the "Snn. r ,, .
be of Tibetan origin his been worship-
&"orCt1906Jn the Prehistoric stor?e
circle of Stonehenge, England, generally
believed to be a temple of the sun. This
fact is thought bv snm .v,,i
corroborate the solar-temple hypothesis of
....i... jjocnyer, tne day of the
summer solstice having been chosen by
the new sect to pay their homage to the
SSl'MV I1 - the
". " "V" jiu"einge are thus de
scribed by V. Forbln in La Nature (Paris,
June 21):
"If W'e are exactly inrnrmiui
. . -' -- ' - ii was l UI
.. ui bl nine in it. on June 22, that t
group of five or slv
prised by soldiers engaged in maneuvers
on Salisbury plain, while, prostrate be
neath the trlliths, they recited mysterious
litanies in their own language.
"The Incident found no mention In the
press. But the pilgrims returned In larger
iier year, always on June
21 or 22. This persistence finally attracted
public attention and that of the papers
whose reporters ascertained the following
faita-
These pilgrims, Hindus, Arabs, and
jr-ersians, Deiongeu to a religion of rela
tively recent origin, whose name may be
translated 'The Universal League of the
Sons of Men.' Founded, apparently, in
Tibet, it has made rapid progress among
the upper classes In Asia, notably In In
dia, Arabia, and Persia; and it already
has numerous adherents In Europe. In
England it is professed-by two or three
thousand persons, who meet to pray In
several houses, transformed Into temples;
aniuiiK mem two in ixmaoti, one In Man
chester, .and one in Liverpool.
"In 19i2 the Daily Mirror sent one of
Its best staff photographers to take pic
tures of the strange ceremonies at Stone
henge. "As generally understood, the Sons of
Men have selected the summer solstice for
their sun worship. The pilgrims were led
by priests called the 'Sacred Five,' who
were clad In ample robes of purple, cov
ered in part with white turbans on their
heads. Among them, two were clearly
Englishmen.
"The assemblage met at the stones be
fore dawn. While awaiting the sunrise,
men and women remained prostrate be
fore the great altar stone, reciting pray
ers, each In his own tongue. The transla
tion or one or them is as follows:
" T believe that nature is the nflt1
majesty of the powers, and above all of
the omnipotent power behind the great
wiole.
' 'Believing in the omnipotent power, I
Deiieve in tne great conception of the
Infinite called Allah, universal majesty
and truth, and infinite love, who dwells
in our heart. I believe in the growth of
all things toward good, and also In the
Intentional evolution of all things toward
the better, ana toward the best
."" tne sun i.naiiy
giiaea xne iront or
the monumental tril
Iths, the chief of the sacred five asked in
a loud voice:
. " -Brothers, know ye wherefore we are
met at this time in this sacred inclosure?"
"And the faithful answered solemnly:
" 'To proclaim our recognition of the
power of Allah, universal majesty and
truth, and infinite love, according to the
commandments of the sacred five, the
great souls, angelic messengers of Allah
to the Sons of Men.'
"The ceremony was kept up until sun
set, during which time neither the priests
nor the faithful seemed to be at all dis
concerted by the smiles of the curious,
who had gathered nearby to observe this
strange festival of the sun." Literary
JJlgest, -
"My dear, having your father to live
with us won't work. "But neither will
father." Baltimore American.
KANSAS COMMENT
GOOD ROAD BOOSTINO.
Good road boosting Is one of the
pastimes, as well as occupations, of
many Kansas people. For years Kan
sas has been in the. good roads work
and has been afflicted with a multi
plicity of' good roads organizations.
However, all these organizations have
had a. part in the creation of the pub
lic opinion that brought the good
roads. Now the nation is facing a like
situation. Soon the national good
road congress will meet in Detroit. In
this meeting will convene members
of three or four national good roads
organizations and highway . associa
tions. When one reads the program
he wonders if the end desired will
not be lost in the petty rivalries of
the competing associations. There la
a Lincoln Highway association, back
ing a particular project for a coast to
coast road, and a National Highways
association, fathering a project em
bracing a half dozen main highways
and trunk lines across the continent,
with lateral highways north and
south. One task of the congress will
be to prevent the rivalries of these
conflicting projects from injuring the
good roads cause as a whole. A good
many movements get lost in the in
tricacies of the organizations purport
ing to boost them. Too often offi
cers of these societies lose sight of
the real end in their Interest In mak
ing nice lovely reports. It is to be
hoped the good road movement na
tionally will not be handicapped by a
multiplicity of associations officered
by men whose chief aim is to secure
and retain good Jobs for themselves.
Hutchinson Gazette.
o
DIAZ AND HT'ERTA.
Porflrio Diaz may or may not have
been the meanest man in Mexico In nu
time, but he certainly was the ablest ruler
Mexico has known since her troubled raca
began. Whether blood will tell enough to
give his nephew, Felix Diaz, similar ex
ecutive ability, there may be no way of
knowing. Again, we may learn in time,
for the younger Diaz Is still nursing hu
ambition to become president of Mexico.
He may or may not land, politics being
uncertain as well as violent In that re
gion. But this much is certain: the world
would prefer him to Huerta. Whatever
Diaz's faults may be, he has at least
fought In the open. He led an uprising at
Vera Cruz which certainly was a forlorn
hope, and had nerve enough to come back
at Mexico City when It looked doubtful lf
he had an even break. He might not have
done so well but for the treachery of
Huerta, but he will be honored at least as
one who wasn't afraid to take a risk. His
standards are un-American and his am
bitions personal rather than patriotic, but
the feeling that any change In Mexico
would be an improvement makes It plain
he is preferable to Huerta Atchison
Globe.
fROM OTNER PENS
MINNESOTA'S IRON ROYALTIES.
If the output of the Iron mines of the
state of Minnesota continues for the rest
of the season in the same proportions as
those prevailing up to Sept. 1, the season's
total will be nearly three million tons, an
unprecedented amount of raw material for
the Pennsylvania and Ohio furnaces and
rolling mills that get their supply in the
northern region. Much of this enormous
total will have come from nronerttes
owned by the state and operated on the
royalty basis. That Is to say, auto
matically as it were. anDroxImatelv II.-
000.000 is coming Into the state treasury
this year as the reward of the shrewdness
of state officials who, years ago, when ad
joining states were selling outright the
scnoot lanas donated by tne federal gov
ernment for what they would bring for
timber, declined to do likewise. When the
word "conservation" had not yet entered
the American vocabulary, the Minnesota
officials of an earlier period had sense
enough to retain title to school lands, even
when they sold the right to cut timber.
Now the state Is reaping the reward.
Forestry can make the lands suited for
timber erowlnir become a steady source
of income, and the vast deposits of a basic
ore found on state lands are so valuable
and so surely mortgaged for the support
of the state's public and normal schools
and the university at Minneapolis that
people who ought to know predict an ulti
mate endowment for the latter larger
than any American educational Institution
ever has had. Fifty million dollars is
mentioned. This sum, if President Vin
cent has his way, will revert to the peo
ple in the rorm or a very practical, con
crete form of education, effected after
the manner of the University of Wiscon
sin. Sooner or later, of course, the
American nublic will be forced to deal
with some of the ethical and economic
aspects of privately-owned and publicly
owned and controlled mineral wealth, a
form which has its own peculiarities or
creation and valuation. One hap only to
contrast the outcome of one policy in
Pennsylvania with the beginnings of an
other policy in Minnesota to note a start
ling difference, shown in more ways than
one. Christian Science Monitor.
PRECEDENT WITH MR. BRIAN.
In Justice to Mr. Bryan it should be
pointed out that there Is the very best
precedent in the world for combining ed
ucational and uplift talk with vaudeville.
Those who are making merry over the
appearance of Mr. Bryan on the Chau
tauqua platform between a musical com
edy trio and a troupe of acrobats might
recall that the most splendid educational
talks recorded In history, talks in which
the universe, and life, and . death, and
truth, and justice were discussed with In
comparable vigor and beauty, took place
under something like the Bryan condi
tions. We refer, of course, to the Chau
tauqua work of Socrates, as described la
the Dialogues of Plato. What was the
Greek symposium at which Socrates was
so frequently among those present? It
was high philosophy, relieved by -vaude
ville performances. Socrates may very
conceivably have nailed a pet argument of
Thrasymachus In the Interlude between a
turn by an Egyptian dancing girl and a
Phrygian flute player. Or call up the
scene in the market-place where Xan
thippe's husband did so much of his talk
ing: crowds, shouts, little boys playing
ball, Persian jugglers, Indian snake
charmers. Punch and Judy shown,
Thraclan tight-rope walkers undoubtedly
Mr. Bryan has precedent with him. New
York Evening Post.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Father's favorite flower Poppy.
Borrow and the world borrows with you;
lend and you lend a loan.
Man wants but little here below that is,
he wants but little below par.
Many a fellow who Is satisfied with a
back seat in church will want a front seat
in heaven.
Many a fellow who has sold himself for
30 pieces of silver has been made to look
tike 30 cents.
The marriage ceremony requires the
bride to be given away, in spite of the
fact that she is frequently sold.
Courtship demonstrates that a young
man's arm goes to waist more frequently
than his opportunities do. - .
Wigg "That suffragette's little girl Is
so boisterous." Wagg- "What can you
expect when her mother Is so mannish?"
Blobbs "Rounder seems to be a great
favorite with the married men." Slobba
"Yes, he calls himself a life buoy on
the sea of matrimony."
"Like cures like," quoted the' WIpo
?,"y- ,Tnats. riht- agreed the Simple
Mug. "Take love for instance. It's both
an intoxicant and a soberer up."
Tommy "Pop. what do we mean by the
higher education?" Tommy's Pop "By
the higher education, my son. we. mean
more we know the less we believe."