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THE TOPEKA DAILY TATIj JOURlTAIr WEDNESDAY EVENING- OCTOBER 29, 1913-
By HUKK P." MAC LKNI? AN.
Entered July 1, 1873, as Bccond-clasa
natter at the postofflce at Topeka, Kan.,
under the act of congressj
VOLUME XXXV No. 247
Official State Paper.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The State Journal Is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news '
gmnlzatlon for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka.
The news is received in The State Joar
nal building over wires for fua sola pur
pose. Thie is strange,; passing- strange.
Colonel Roosevelt has words of praise
for Brazil.
Ajax in his palmiest days never de
fied the lightning: more defiantly than
K.Victoriano of Mexico
What is going on in Mexico can
hardly be called war. Yet it Is what
General Sherman said war was
New Hampshire has evidently made
& big hit with Harry Thaw. He wishes
to stay there at least two weeks longer.
Somebody, about now, ought to re
cite to Dictator Huerta that touching
little ballad, "Don't Monkey with the
Buzz Saw."
Senor Huerta seems anxious to
hasten the day when the United
States will no longer be content to
"view with displeasure."
Huerta's threat to set the Monroe
doctrine aside comes near being the
one best scream since King Canute
told the sea to back up.
Its agricultural department having
come out in defense of the crow, pos
sibly the administration Is getting
ready to put it in the menu.
The real thing in the way of a
"squaw winter" having arrived, To
fekans may expect a delightful spell
of "Indian summer" before long.
"While compelling the packers to fill
their cans with oysters, why doesn't
thvi department of agriculture make
them fill the oysters with pearls?
Seems as though the first thing
Governor Foss does every morning is
to fling up a penny to see what party
he will belong to during the day.
Any number of water enthusiasts
are likely to be present at the annual
meeting of the International Dealers'
association, now in session at Chicago.
An American missionary has a good
word for Huerta. This increases his
admirers in the United States to two,
ex-Ambassador Wilson being the oth
er one. - ,
Presumably, the Duke of the Abruzzi
will soon climb a really high moun
tain and then jump off. The erst
while Katherine Elkins has married
another.
Congressman - Captain Richmond
Pearson Hobson is in his eleme"nt now.
He has become a life member of the
World's Women's Christian Temper
ance Union.
Considering the enormous fortune
at the command of the Elkins family,
It i no more than reasonable to insist
that Billy Hitt, its new son-in-law, has
made a ten-strike.
Cattle, cattle, who's got the cattle?
Western Kansas farmers .are in a po
sition to fatten many thousands of
them on the-wheat growth " that is
breaking all records for this time of
year.
Incidentally, all of the New Tork
Giants' pitchers are doing great work
In the exhibition games that are be
ing played on the world's tour. But
then, they haven't the Athletics slug
gers to pitch against.
An estimate of the number of Kan
tans who will be affected by the in
come tax law places it at 8,000. This!
-means that there are 1,682,000 other!
souls in the state who are filled with '
regrets that the same is not true of '
them.
Reports that American packers are
to raise beef in Rhodesia would be
more agreeable, thinks the Christian
Science Monitor, if accompanied by
am assurance that they would reduce
the price they are so much better at
raising than lowering. .- .
A topic for writers next year will
be the Star-Spangled Banner. Fran
cis Scott Key wrote it Sept. 14. 1814,
and its centenary is to be celebrated
at Baltimore under the patronage of
President Wilson, and with the co
operation of former Presidents Taft
and Roosevelt, and the active partic
ipation of the governors of the eigh
teen states which formed the Union
when the song was written. One ef
fect of the anniversary 'will doubtless
be to give unusual emphasis to pa
triotism as a note in the literature of
the year. 1
EDUCATION FOR LIFE.
. That Hampton . and .; Tuskegee,
schools for negroes, .are valuable not
merely as excellent schools for the
colored race, but for their Important
contribution to the present vocational
educational movement, is the declara
tion of the United States Bureau of
education. In a pamphlet just ' dis
tributed by the bureau, entitled "Ed
ucation for Life," tribute is paid to
the work of Hampton Institute and
particularly General Armstrong, Us
founder, who is looked upon by edu
cators as a pioneer in the field of
practical education.
"General Armstrong possessed to a
remarkable degree the gift of educa
tional prophecy," asserts Prof. Pea
body in the introduction to the pam
phlet. "He foresaw and foretold with
extraordinary precision the tendencies
and transitions which within the last
twenty-five years have practically
revolutionized the principles of edu
cation. The training of the hand and
eye, as-well as of the mind, the mor
al effect of technical skill, the con
ception of labor as a moral force, the
test of education in efficiency, and the
vanity of education without discipline
in thrift, self-help, love of work and
willingness to sacrifice all these fa
miliar maxims of modern vocational
training were set forth by him with
all the assurance of a social prophet."
The pamphlet includes a brief
sketch of General Armstrong's life
and a collection of pithy utterances
on aims and methods of education,
many of which are distinctly helpful
to those interested in present prob
lems, according to officials of the bu
reau of education. It is felt that
General Armstrong's theory and dem
onstration of practical education have
proved to be right, not merely for the
races for which they were immediate
ly intended, but for boys and girls ev
erywhere, since they represent a suc
cessful attempt to work out one of the
most momentous tasks of our time
that of creating an education that
shall be an effective force for train
ing productive, efficient members of
society.
THE RURAL DECREASE.
When sixteen out of eighteen Kan
sas counties you may rememoer
that Kansas is primarily an agricul
tural state report large losses In
rural population, something is wrong.
insists the Kansas Industrialist, and it
continues: The last census shows
that sixteen of the eighteen counties
making up the two tiers surrounding
Topeka have lost thousands In rural
population n the last ten . years.
Geary and Leavenworth counties, ow
ing to the difference in the methods
of counting the soldiers in 1900 and in
1910, appear not to have lost in rural
population. Jf it were not for this
inconsistency, doubtless eighteen out
of eighteen counties around Topeka
would have been affected. Don't
think it's anything unusual. You
have only to read the census reports
to find the same condition existing
around nearly every city. Census re
ports are rather ponderous for light
reading, but they are fascinating to a
student of rural conditions.
They tell, further, that it isn't tired.
retired persons that are making the
figures look so ugly it's the young
people, the producers, if you please,
that are doing it.
Listen to this: Nine and nine
tenths per cent of the city population
is under flvi years of age, while in
the country thirteen per cent are un
der that age. What does It mean ?
There is a larger per cent of very
young people to begin with in the
country.
What becomes of them ? Here's
t ie answer: Thirty-three per cent
of the city people are between 25 and
44 years of age, while the country has
only a little more than twenty-five
per cent. Between the years of 25
and 44, families are reared and for
tunes are made.
There's no use in the world in be
ing pessimistic about it. We can be
thankful that we've caught the appeal
of census reports. The solution of
any national problem depends, funda
mentally, upon the intelligent atten
tion of the public to that problem.
When the people city people, country
people, old people, young people
think long enough and hard enough
on the subject of rural needs, the cen
sus reports will tell a different story.
The "Silly" Season.
People are beginning to realize the
absurdity of regarding the holiday
months as the "silly" season. We are,
or ought to be, now in full tide of
inanity and vapidity. What is the
fact? The papers are full of the pro
ceedings of the great international
congress of medicine, the reports of
which the public are reading with avid
interest, if with a minimum of under
standing. Every journal has opened
its columns, as we have, to the discus
sion of some vital question touching
human life or the state of society, and,
if some of the letters which" are pub
lished (and many of those which are
not) deserve the epithet "silly," the
great majority give evidence that they ,
are the outcome of real and serious
thinking, while not a few are actually
useful contributions to the solution of
the questions with which they deal.
The sea serpent nowadays rears his
ugly crest in vain; the gigantic goose
berry turns green again with envy.
The public heeds them not
In point of fact, the "silly" season
has become the season of thought
Men and women use their leisure to
disentangle and coordinate, to weigh
and to formulate some of the impres
sions which they have acquired sub
consciously in the hurry of daily life.
We think that we and our contempor
aries do good public service by putting
forward at this season of the year some
subject for serious debate. The mis
chief of the age is that the ordinary
"daily breader" has no time to think.
He is always doing. His mind becomes
a rag bag of useless experience; but in
the hours of leisure he has time to read
and to think in an orderly manner if
he will give himself the trouble to do
so. The effort does him good, not harm.
If his heart becomes hot within him til!
the fire kindles and at length he speaks
with his tongue or writes with his pen.
he is the better for doing so, whether
he contributes much to the common
stock of ideas or not. Pall Mall Gazette.
JOURNAL ENTRIES
It is easy enough for a man minus
money to keep out of mischief.
At any rate, a fool and -his money
generally have a good time in the
parting.
Most of the "snap shots", by ama
teur photographerss eem to have a
fatal effect on the subjects.
Nor is there anything like enough
praise bestowed on those who refrain
from singing.
Frequently it happens that the only
way a man .can make his home happy
is by staying away from it as much as
possible.
JAYHAWKER JOTS
According to the Russell Reformer,
the latest conundrum in its vicinity, is:
"Why is a certain person's head like
Saturday night?" Answer and diagram:
"Because It is the week-end."
Evidently the Meriden Ledger Is in
need of an ear horn. It says: Still we
have failed to hear any reason why the
state should spend several hundred
thousand dollars for the purpose of
propagating fish.
As the Valley Kails Eastern Kansan
says: If the immigration officials would
use the same caution with the steer
age passengers that they put forth in
the case of Mrs. Pankhurst, the coun
try could be considerably better off.
It is remarkable to assume that the
grocery store clerks in Howard are
a happy lot and exceedingly choice of
their jobs. One of that town's customs
permits a clerk who weighs a girl to
kiss her for his trouble as she steps
from the scales. . .
Reports in the Kansas weeklies in
dicate that the wheat all over the state
is looking fine. But it will be "killed"
several times before a bumper crop is
harvested from it late next spring.
Luckily, Kansas wheat has as many
lives as the proverbial cat.
Some of Mrs. Peffer's observations, in
her Eureka Herald: If all the prayers
were answered, the majority of folk
would quit work. . . . Whether it is
income or outgo has lots to do with
the size of money in the eyes of most
people. . . . Between the things that
are too big for us to do and the
things that we think are too little.
usually there isn't much left to under
take. ... If the heating plant is in
good working order, and the last ton
of coal is paid for, it's a mighty fine
time to rhapsodize on October in Kan
sas. This is a true story, says the Downs
News, although it seems more like a
page from a story book. Mrs. pfiscilla
Botorf, who died last summer, had long
been a subscriber of the News. It was
her custom to pay for it a year at a
time. When her subscription expired
February 14, this year, she came to the
office and renewed but for six months.
She was asked if she wanted the paper
stopped at the expiration of that time.
With a faint smile she replied: "I ex
pect that will be as long as I need it."
Her subscription expired August 14.
1913. She died that night.
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.
Remorse is usually a little late about
going to work.
Remember that an attorney's opinion Is
generally a paid one.
Neither does the weather need to be cold
to develop cold feet.
Lawyers never go on a strike and there
are other misfortunes. ,
Occasionally a man is so blind he won't
see, and can't be shown. ,
Don't be so easily discouraged that you
feel that way most of the time.
Tire trouble is a great institution to re
move the Joy from the joy ride.
Fashion says freakish gowns are to go.
Sure;, they are going and coming all the
time.
So many think they are handsome that
the owner of a kodak can always keep
fairly busy. ...
A Princess is apt to feel that her ardent
admirer should spend most of his money
on her to prove it.
If they don't know how the fire started,
the general disposition is to blame it on
the sinful cigarette.
Don't stick out your chest. Three days
after you have been buried no one will
be able to recall who you were.
When a saloonkeeper opens his heart
and donates to Sweet Charity, he isn't
fooling the Lord, or anyone else in par
ticular. -
More husbands (they're such confiding 1
--' o uiiKiii ten tneir wives every
thing if their wives would give them a
chance.
We try to maintain a proper perspective
but confess some difficiiltv ) . '
importance of an athletic s amateur stand-
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
tFrom the Philadelphia Record.
It's the love of money that makes a
man root for all evil.
It is better to burn your bridges behind
you man in front of you.
It is perhaps better to be green with
verdancy than with envy.
Vaccination may keep people from tak
ing things, but it won't cure kleptomania.
Many a man goes through life seeking
the truth who can't tell it when he. find!
A full crown normal man mnat ha
lfnr tn GanH 'Vavmta" n u E . ..1 1
Many . man eta tne bett"er" "an argu-
ment witnout necessarily proving he Is
right
Wigg "When does a woman reach the
years of discretion?" Wagg "When sne
ro longer tellg her age."
Sillicus "I don't believe he is seriously
in love with her?" Cynicus "No, he
uoesn't act a bit like a fool."
Muggins "Henpekke and his wife are
continually chewing the apple of discord."
ouagins "Well, I'll bet all Henpekke gets
is the core."
Tommy "Pop, a felt slipper is soft
isn't it?" Tommy's Pop "Yes, my son,
but I can demonstrate to you that a slip
per can be hard and still be felt."
Blobbs "Is there much family resem
blance between Wlgwa and his father?'
Slobbs "About as much as there is be
tween the Pop of a pistol and a son of a
gun."
About the only time a woman ever pays
any serious attention to her husband is
between their wedding day and the ar
rival of the first baby.
What a girl likes about sitting on a
park bench in the moonlight with a young
man is that the moon may dodge behind
a cloud at any moment
"What is frenzied finance?" "Financing
your friends." Judge. : v . r
ry miE WAY ;
BT HARVgY PAR3QN8.
Unk. Samivel,, noted ior nis auim.y
to drive a good bargain, has traded
Kemp, the harmless hobo, for Mrs.,
Fanktiurst But up to a late hour this
tT j j ii lnim
aiiernooii. .rgianu
Of course we should observe that
Katherine Elkins eot a Hitt the first :
time up, but as other paragrafers can,
do better with the subject, we reiuse
to muss it up. Kindly consider that
we have not mentioned it..
The difference, between this and
former Mexican elections is that the
Associated Press is using a few nu
merals in the dispatches. It used to
be: "Porfirio Diaz was again elected
president by an overwhelming major
ity." and the only figures in the dis
patch were in . the date line.
Hon. Osculating Hobson is now a
life member of the.W. C. T. U.. but
his application for membership in the
Y. W. C. A. has not been passed upon
by the committee.
The Lawrence . Journal-World is
looking for the old fashioned man
who had malaria. He may be found
in San Diego, Cal., and his name Is
Dodd Gaston.
Adolphus Busch' left fifty million
dollars; kindly observe that he LEFT
it.
The object of this "social survey"
business is not exactly clear .to every
one.- Sadie ssimpicins mium
pose is to estaDiisn me o, .,er
of the Latin quarter and run the di-
vidine line between the lower and
upper crusts. Hondo Murphy thinks
the real purpose is to find the exact
center of the city's pocketbook, and
then run tunnels in. every direction.
It is the consensus of opinion, how
ever, that if Huerta beat Diaz five to
one. the umpire was crooked.
"I'm ahead of a lot of poor geeks,"
says Filling Fuller. "They have their
overcoats in hock, but mine was
eleven vears old last spring, ana
looked so frowsy I couldn't get an,
offer on it"
We express no surprise over the re
port that State ; Text Book Commis
sion Austin did his California inves
tieratinsr during the torrid spell. The
1 weather was rawther fierce in bee
j yootif ul Kansas at that time.
j A Great Bend lady served time in
the pen for killing one james a.
Duffy. It now appears that said
. . a n i i.v.i Txrvio- ohnnM
1 mil y is alive iii winu. ,.. ......
a lady do under the circumstances?
u-,,iiTier Tiai.1 tti' nripe set bv law on
Duffy's goat, is she not entitled to oil
up her six shooter, go to Ohio and
collect?
What's in a name? Hans Dubbs
was among the winners in the Ne-
braska land drawing, and the land
will probably sefll for just as much as
if his name was Adelbert Mont
morency, r
EVEUING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON. .
Another Splendid Human Document
Do you dread to grow.'T6ld? ,
Do you think of all the Vears after
sixty-five or seventy as a sort of stu
pid epilogue to the active drama of
life?
If you do, a letter friend of mine has
an illuminating message for you.
Please read it.
"I have read with interest," she
writes, "your article in last night's
paper entitled "Why grow old?" and
wish that I could have a heart to
heart talk with you, and could meet
your friend of 72. I have a fellow
feeling in my bosom for all such as
she who keeps a cheerful outlook
upon life. I am nearly 74 years young,
and feel as ready now to attack any
problem of life as I did 25 years ago.
It seems to me that my brain is more
alert every day. I enjoy perfect
health, and read and try to digest
everything from psychology to beans.
"I take a 5 or 6 mile walk, every
morning when . the weather permits,
rising at 4 o'clock in the summer to
do so. I have been married 3 times,
and cannot yet say that marriage is
a failure. Have raised 6 children, 3
grandchildren and am now renewing
my youth while helping to care for a
great grandson who is a delight to
me.
"I am now studying Latin, am per
fect in German and know enough
French to understand when it is
spoken. I taught both vocal and In
strumental music for 41 years and
thjnk I am entitled to a front seat
along with all other teachers 'up yon
der." My life has been crowded with
trouble, having had two daughters
killed before my very eyes, one acci
dentally, the other well, I can't write
of it.
"I have taken up the study of birds
and trees. Unfortunately I am very
deaf, which deprives me of a great
deal of pleasure, the greatest being
my inability to listen to good lecturers.
But I do not complain. I've had my
'fling.' Have heard nearly every sing
er of note up to 10 years ago, and en
joyed listening to the best actrs. I've
graduated in photography, : have my
diploma and am now writing moving
picture plays, so as to be independent
"In looking this over It may sound
rather egotistical. That was not my
object in writing. I wanted you to
know that there are other socalle'd
'old ladies' who are young at 70. As
Celia Thaxter sings, 'I stand in the
sunshine sweet, 'and cherish every
day!" I love and am loved, what more
can I ask? Yours for a long life and
a useful happy one."
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
Some home runs -are made on sewing
machines.
Woman's vanity is largely due to man's
flattery.
Wisdom comes with years if folly
leaves room for it.
When two dentists form a partnership
they should pull together.
There are fools and hopeless fools; the
letter tell all they know.
The most exclusive people in the world
are In solitary confinement.
The best you can say of the average
man is: "He tried to do his duty." ..
Don't waste time explaining your ac
tions; people prefer to draw their own
conclusions.
During the courtship she reads poetry
to him, but after marriage she reads him
the riot act .
There's always Voom at the top which
reminds us that Pa'l gowns should be
revised upward. - - -
'-, It's up to the promoter of a get-rich-
quick scheme to keep a - get-away-quick
plan on file for use in case of emergency,
CLOTHES, THE BIRTH RATE, &C.
When as in silks his Julia went, '
Whom Herrick lyricised with passion,
The press declared Gehenna sent - -Each
new and femininny fashion.
When hnnnKliirta moHa thai. wMa annaal.
uurmg the war misnomered civil,
The papers made their readers feel
The girls were going to the divil.
. , ' ,
And in the days of sweeping trains
And sleeves as thick as Vallombrosa,
They said that women had no brains.
"Have they a chance of heaven? No,
Bah!"
And in these here x-radiant days
Of grenadine and voile and dimit-
Y, press and pulpit, in amaze.
Cry out aghast: "This IS the limit!"
What is the reason for this piece?
Why did I spill these agonistics?
Observe each year the great increase "
In vital, so to speak, statistics.
Franklin P. Adams, In the New York
Mail.
THE EVENING STORY
Thanks to Patsy.
(By Izola Forrester.)
"I don't think," said Miss Woolsey
firmly, "I don't think any one should
be permitted to keep a dog in an apart
ment house. If I were you, Creswick,
1 should cancel my lease and move."
-"It's a very decent little pup. Aunt
Celia I can't very well ask the girl
to turn it into the streets a day like
this." Creswick smiled musingly out
at the snow-covered expanse of Gra
mercy park four stories down. More
snow was falling. A brisk northeast
...tni iiriina ahnnt in a frantic
chase. He caught a glimpse of a ng-
, bright scarlet cloak and fur
ure m ,? B, ,v u inninsnre.
: ? " tucked
She is taking it for a run now, tucked
in her muff."
"How can it run when it is tucked
in her muff? Ugh!" exclaimed his aunt.
"I can understand one choosing a large
handsome dog such as a greyhound
or a St. Bernard, something rather or
namental, you understand, Creswick-
"
"And' so much more suited to an
apartment of five rooms than a ter
rier," assented Creswick gravely.
"A terrier is by nature vicious. This
one snaps at my heels every time I
meet it. Some day I shall forget my
self and kick at it, I really shall, Cres. '
Creswick Talbot hardly heard the
peevish murmur from the deep wicker
Sopen fi
window recess looking past' the heavy
cream lace curtains and tiny green
pine trees in the window boxes, fol
lowing the figure in the park.
He doubted whether Norma even
Vtipw ho '' b. tenant In the same
' - ... ., 1 1
. building. He had been away aii
throueh the summer ana eauj ..
He had not even heard from her since
the nrevious Christmas down at Bar
ry's nlace in Virginia. Standing now,
with only the glimpse of her through
the falling snow, he caught the queer
old thrill beating through his veins at
, the memory of their riae togetner al
ter the hunt breakfast at old Kap
pahanock Inn.
She had dismissed his whole poured
out adoration with a little flip of her
crop. Marry? She would never marry
at all. She did not have to marry.
The only persons who married nowa
days were either irresponsible roman
ticists or lunatics, sne naa ner own
income. " It was email, but quite ade
quate for all her needs. And she had
her life laid out before her. In its en
tire scope there w-as not a single place
for a man. '
"If you loved me you could not speak
to me so," he had told her savagely.
"There is some one else."
"Oh, no," she said. "If I cared to
marry anyone, it is quite likely I might
choose you. I really do like you, Cres
wick, very much indeed. You're so
patient, with- me," and here. she had
smiled back at him over her shoulder,
that tantalizing, luring smile that al
ways left him guessing just how much
it promised
"Then, at least, I have a running
chance."
"If any one has, perhaps you have
some day."
And that had been all." Yet the
memory of that last ride, of her face
half turned toward him, the firm grip
of her nands on the reins, the easy
poise of her slerder body, the whole
picture had dwelt in his heart through
all his wanderings. He had never
given her but one thing, the little
Irish terrier she had wanted. rf i
Patsv nrnniri nava, e,, v., t !
had only hac i
" . r t' r J ii inauc
him happy to think she had cherished
even that much from him.
"I wish you wquld complain to the
owners of the buiHing, Cres, dear,"
has aunt began again.
Creswick seized on the chance to escape
e!i tain'y he would appeal. He would go
and talk to them at once.
He ran into her point blank down in the
lower hall. She was frightened and ex
cited and did not recognize him in the
vague light.
"My dog has been stolen lust now in the
park! The man caught him up and ran
down toward Third avenue. Please please
help find him for me."
Creswick took up the chase with a keen
relish that amazed himself. Some boys
were running and he followed them. He
had almost forgotten he could run after
several years of inactive city life, but
speed came to him. The man, with the
terrier jammed under one arm, took a
backward look at tne gathering crowd in
bis wake and darted around the corner
Into Twentv-eeconrl street. Ro th. Hma
his pursuers caught up he was out of
sight, but shivering on a doorstep was the
terrier.
Creswick picked it up, patted its head
and started away, congratulating himself.
At least Norma would have the pup back.
Aud Just here an excited maid opened the
door with the brass knocker on it and
shrieked out after him:
"You bring back that dog! Help! Po
lice! Help!"
"Oh. the deuce," groaned Creswick,
swinging about. "I say, my good girl; this
is my dog, you know. At least it was my
doe. Its name is Patsy."
He hesitated. Possibly Norma had
changed its name. The little beast did not
seem at all responsive. The crowd of
boys and general street riffraff gathered
around him, waiting to see him hauled up
for stealing a dog. He grinned down at
them appreciatively and waited for the
arm of the law to descend. He still hung
to the terrier. The maid had sped for
help. A Japanese cook and houseboy had
emerged from the basement and stood be
hind him ready for action. The crowd in
creased. It seemed hours that he waited
before an officer arrived. He handed over
his card in a bored sort of way and
gripped Patsy closer.
waTand"te eTbeg'aTt? bbwTp tV.
And then, just as triumph loomed his
maia. tne japs ana tne wnoie crowd, and
he was moving off with the terrier. Just
then appeared Norma, breathless, rosy
cheeked, with a terrier tucked into her
muff, its frowsy head just visible.
"Oh. dear. Cres," she gasped. "I am so
awfully sorry. It wasn't Patsy after all.
He took another dog. What is the trou
ble? '
It took Talbot ten minutes to clear mat
ters up, to pacify the maid, and the Jap
cook, and the plump little Jap houseboy,
the officer and the crowd who howled
with Jov at the turn of fortune's wheel.
And finally, tne two stood together aione
in the cleared street She was laughing,
her muff pressed to her face, her brown
eyes half closed with, mirth, and Patsy
was barking, trying to get out -
"I hope you're satisfied," he said cheer
fully, but impersonally. "It nearly land
ed,16 in jail as a common thief."
But I had no idea it was you I spoke
to. And really, Cres. I don't think it was
nice of you to come where Lam living,
you know " .
"Don't you? I happen to live there also
second apartment up, to the right' I have
lived there four years."
"I shall move tomorrow." '
"You will do nothing of the sort." He
tucked her arm comfortably under his
and shielded her from the wind as they
turned back into the little park lnclosure.
"You will come up now and meet my
aunt; and have tea with us properly, and
I shall tell her that we are to be married
at Easter, thanks to Patsy." (Copyright,
1913, .by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULTON.
J
. The. X ew . Village Store. .
The village . store has changed, a pile, .
or so it seems to mer
It's different in stock and . style from
what it used to be.
The cracker barrel's vanished now,
the prunes are gone from sight.
There's nothing left around, I vow, to
tempt your appetite.
There's no place left for us to sit who
used to haunt that store;
Our wisdom and our native wit aren't
heard there any more.
The place is all so spick and span and
certified and smart.
It's simply broken up the clan and
cracked each loafer's heart
I know it's - making money fast since
it has changed its ways;
It never made much in the past but
those were good .old days.
It was the meeting place, the hub, in
. ..that glad time of vore:
It was the forum of the club and now
It s just a store.
The Diary of a Boneliead.
It was Podsnap's birthday and the
neighborhood gave a party in his
honor. Of course there had to be a
present for Podsnap and of course I
became the Angora of the occasion. I
was elected to solicit the funds and to
purchase the gift
By main strength I got $2 each out
of the men in the neighborhood and
went and bought Podsnap an $18
black leather handbag. I had col
lected only $14, so I put up the re
maining $4 myself.
I was greatly pleased with myself,
but no one else seemed to be partic
ularly delighted but Podsnap, and he
lZ hfU
On the night of the party I heard
my next door neighbor say to the man
who lived across the street: "That
looks to me like a $9 bag."
"I saw them advertised at $7.95,"
said the man who lived across the
' 7 ,
street
I can buy them for $4 8 a dozen."
volunteered a third neighbor.
"There is always a little graft in
this birthday present business," said
a man who lived next door to Pod
snap. Mrs. Podsnap was positively insulted
and said, in a whisper which was so
loud that everybody in the room heard
it, that it was a reflection on her to
give Henry a traveling bag, indicating
thereby that his home life was not
happy and she had always been a true
and faithful wife and Henry never
wanted to travel, etc.
Two of the men who were loudest
in their denunciation of the traveling
bag have not yet paid their subscrip
tions. -
Never again.
ATTACKS MRS. SULZER
Pamphlet Circulated Charging That
She Is Renegade Jewess.
New York, Oct 29. William Sulze
asked the authorities today to Investigate
the authorship of a pamphlet attacking
his wife. This pamphlet. writtenin He
brew, was circulated anonymously in the
Sixth assembly district where the ex
governor is running for assemblyman on
the Progressive ticket. Jews predominate
in this district. Sulzer had it read last
night when he addressed a big political
meeting. . The pamphlet said Mrs. Sulzer,
although a Jewess, repudiated her faith
after her husband became governor and
on more than one occasion in Philadelphia
Mr. Sulzer had introduced her as a Pres
byterian. '
Rabbi Joseph Levinson of Albany who
read the circular at the meeting, called It
"an infamous lie." He said that Mrs.
Sulzer frequently had attended services at
his synagogue. "This ought to arouse the
indiernation of every honest man in the
district." . said Sulzer today. "Mr. Mur-
nhv's camps are not content with black-
guarding me, but they must attack my
wife."
WHOLE TRIBE DRUNK.
Indians Promptly Expend Their An
nuities for Liquor.
Tower, Minn., Oct. 29. After the
Indians of the reservation here had
been paid their annuities by Superin
tendent Reagan they proceeded to
spend their money freely for alcohol
and whisky. As a result today there
is but one sober Indian family in or
about Tower, according to Mr. Rea
gan. The red men and women of Ver
million Lake engaged in an orgy last
night and early today-.
Superintendent Reagan said that
paying the Indians is but a short cut
to handing out money to unscrupulous
bootleggers who have been preying on
the reservation residents.
One family that received $72 was
penniless last night The husband and
father who intended to buy supplies
for the winter obtained several bottles
of whisky and a gallon jug of alcohol
and he and his wife became intoxi
cated. AGGIES CELEBRATE.
Alumni Remembers Fiftieth Annlvcr
. sary of College. .
Manhattan, Oct. 29. After the storm of
yesterday that caused the parades to be
postponed, the weather dawned bright
and clear the second day of the Kansas
State Agricultural college golden jubilee
celebration today. Many members of the
alumn association are here, among those
who delivered addresses were Chancellor
Prank Strone of the State universn.y; W.
& R---, -tate Mn' LK" S
intsruction; Thomas W. Butcher, president
of the state board of agriculture, and Dr.
H. C. Culbertson, president of the College
of mporia. .. .
Oyster Company Falls.
New York, Oct. 9. The Sealship Oyster
company of New York and Boston a $4,
500,000 corporation, was placed in the
hands of receivers today on an applica
tion in the federal court of the Old Colony
Trust company of oBston, trustees of its
$2,506,000 - convertible bonds. The Oyster
company. defaulted Interest on the bonds
last July.. , ' '
TWO YEARS WASTED.
Due to
'Fads and Furbelows" In Our
SchooLsi.
Washington, Oct 29. Two years of
useful life are lost to every American
under existing educational conditions
due to the increased fads and furbe
lows adopted by the latter day schools
and made part " of their compulsory
curriculum. This is the finding of a
body of eminent educators headed by
President James H. Baker of the
University of Colorado, whose report
was issued today by the United States
bureau of education.
"The great mistake in our educa
tion is to suppose," says the report
"that quantity and strain constitute
education. Education is a question of
doing a few essential things well
and without overstrain. The college
has. committed a grievous mistake in
demanding more in quantity than in
quality produced under conditions of
healthy normal development."
The educators who, says the bureau
officials, spent 10 years investigating
conditions, would have the elemen
tary education of the young occupy
only six years instead of eight. They
would have the student pass through
high school and college so as to be
prepared either to enter the world -at
the age of 20 or if desirous of taking
up a profession enable him to be
equipped in two or three years later.
HER CASE IS DROPPED
American Woman Charged With Kiil
, naping Irish Children Goes Free.
Dublin. Oct. 29. The dropping of the
prosecution of Mrs. Lucille Rand,
daughter of Henry T. Gage of Califor
nia, and of Mrs. Dora Monteflore, a
London philanthropist, was virtually
decided on today when the case against
them on a charge of kidnaping came up
before the police magistrate here.
The two women had taken a leading
nnrt in arrnnHnor t ir tho tranafai 1 fl
j England of children of striking Irish
transport workers. The children were
to be cared for in England during the
continuance of the strike. These efforts
were opposed by the Catholic clergy,
who objected to the children being sent
to Protestant homes.
At the hearing today the attorney
for the defendants explained that the
women's action had been misunder
stood. There was, he said, a touch of
humor in charging them with, kidnap
ing, when they were really on an er
rand of mercy. They had not commit-,
ted any crime he declared but had per
haps acted indiscreetly.
The attorney general for Ireland then
consented to an adjournment of the
case for a month, which is taken as an
indication that it will not come up
again.
PUT 0. K. ON TANGO.
Chicago Policewomen Say It Is a
Beautiful Dance.
r Chicago, Oct. 29. Chicago's K poliqe
women have arrived at the conclusion
that the tango, hesitation waltz and
one step are "beautiful" dances and
that "the, trouble Is not with the
dances, but with the dancers."
With Major Funkhouser, second dep
uty superintendent of police, the ten
police women critically watched the
dances as given by a dancing instruc
tor and his partner. The lesson was
given that the police women may judge
between proper and improper dancing
at the public dance halls this winter.
Major Funkhouser declared that danc
ers doing the new steps should keep at
least six Inches apart.
LOCAL MENTION.
Safety razor blades sharpened better
than new, 25-35c. Brunt Drug Co. Adv.
The State Journal will send its news
boys to the Lyman H. Howe travel festi
val at the Grand Friday night. Aside
from being entertained with fine moving
pictures, the boys will thus be able to
keep out of Halloween troubles.
Dr. J. A. Crabb will move his office to
the new Orpheum building on West
Eighth street November 1. Adv.
Charged with being a persistent vio
lator of the prohibitory law, William
Briggs, 314 Quincy street, was found guil
ty on two counts by the Jury in the sec
ond division of the district court Tuesday
afternoon. The sentence Is one year in
the penitentiary. It is expected that
Briggs, through his attorney. Jamison
and Jamison, will appeal his case. "Bee"
Adams and "Bud" Hugglns, both colored,
are serving time at Lansinir nn a iimiia,,
charge. Briggs is the first white man to
be convicted on a felony liquor sentence
in this county. .
Go to Lang for wind shields. 908 Kansas
W. E. Jeffrey Dentist 706 Kansas av
Adv.
There Is trouble ahead for persons who
throw leaves or ashes in the streets or
alleys of the city, according to Sanitary
Sergeant Ramsey. "The problem of what
to do with the leaves is bigger every fall "
says Mr. Ramsey, "for "the old trees keep
growing larger and more trees are planted
every year." The sanitary sergeant also
says that it Is a mistaken belief that
leaves are a protecton for blue grass in
winter. He says a layer of dead leaven
will kill the grass. While he tells what
not to do with the leaves, he does not
say how they should be disposed of.
Go to Lang for wind shields. 908 Kansas
ave. Phone 652. Adv.
"Golden Egg machine-dried Macaroni
Healthier than meat. Better to '
Adv.
Five hundred and ten water deposits
were refunded by the city water depart
ment yesterday. There was not such a
rush today and persons seeking to get
their money back were waited on about
as fast as they arrived.
plant now tulips, hyacinths, -narcissus
for early spring blooming, a fine stock of
Imported bulbs at Ed Yewdall, 1108 West
ern ave. Phone 1622. Adv.
Topeka people who live close in and
who have modern rooms are asked to
open them for the accommodation of vis
iting teachers who will be in the city
next week, Thursday and Friday There
are already hundreds of available rooms
on the list which is being compiled by
E. F. Stanley, principal of the Quincy
school, but they will not suffice provided
that the attendance at the meeting reach
es the 5,000 mark as is expected. Those
who have rooms to spare are asked to
2586PBhIe!,ClPal Stanley a card ' Phone.
Go to Lang for wind shields. 08 Kanaa
ave. Phone 652. Adv.