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TOE TOPEHA DAILY STATE! JOTmiTAI-TUUIDAY-liVIXiJLIiQ rEZhUAXIY 5, 1C14.
Gtrprba Ptat Journal
By FRANK P. MAC LKNWAN.
(Entered July 1, int. as Meond-elaaa
matter at the postofflce at Topeka, Kae
ur.der the act of congress.
VOLUME XXXVI
.No. SI
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OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
T stats Journal Is a member of the
Associated Press and reeatves the fall day
telegraph report of that great news r
ganlzatlon for the exoluslvs afternoon
publication In Topeka.
The news is received to The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur
pose. Bachelor uncles are likely to view
(with alarm the new practice of send
ing babies by parcel post.
Aa the 111 wind work out. Many
(Of the Ben. Davis apple troea In Kan
sas were killed by last summer's
drouth. ' '
At least the new tariff - seems to
have provided the right kind of grease
to send the butter craft sliding- down
the ways.
Congress should think well before
eliminating all Asiatic exclusion feat
tires from the Immigration bill. Cali
fornia might secede.
This Is also the season of the year
Iwhen most of the teams in the several
baseball leagues look like possible
pennant winners on paper.
From the unusual activity displayed
by Missouri's attorney general In the
pursuit of "trusts" it is reasonable to
assume that he has higher political
ambitions to gratify.
Of what does it profit a city to have
a population of 6,000,000 people, like
New York has, if It lacks employment
for 331,000 of its men, which is the
case there at present?
Present indications are that that
old Standby of a player, Mr. Injunc
tion, lways held in reserve, will fig
ure prominently this year in major
league baseball circles
After glancing- "down ' the narrow
pathway hedged in by the ten com
mandments of Buddha, it looks, to
the Washington Post, as though a fel
low might Just as well stay Christian
ized. '
President Wilson, it is said, will
remain neutral in respect to the race
of Roger Sullivan for one of Illinois'
seats in the United States senate. And
in this instance will Brother Bryan
say "me too?"
Colombia will probably forget its
grievances against Uncle Sam as soon
as he hands over that $25,000,000 in
cash which Secretary Bryan is' plan
ning to give it. This is still another
variety of dollar diplomacy.
Bill Sulzer is out with the prophecy
that Colonel Roosevelt will take con
trol of the affairs of the state of New
York on the first of next year and
run them as they should be conducted.
All of which is probably news to the
colonel.
These complications that follow the
cure of cancer by radium and which
cause the death of the patient are
probably the twin sister of the shock
that comes after bo many successful
surgical operations and with such
deadly results.
It begins to look as though the Fed
eral league is also financing the Pan
ama exposition. For instance, the lat
ter has Just announced prizes aggre
gating $300,000 for an aeroplane race
around the world, and . $227,000 in
purses for light harness races.
Nor Is there anything particularly
comic about the Valentine sent by
President Wilson to Victoriano Huerta
which has for its sentiment a few
lines of blank verse to the effect that
the embargo against the exportation of
war munitions to. Mexico has been
lifted. ; '
Evidently the automobile will have
to go much faster than it has been
traveling In the direction of putting
the horse out of business. The latest
statistics show that there are more
than 20,000,000 horses in the United
States of a value of more than $2,250,
000,000.
It is a noticeable fact that none of
the candidates for office, local, coun
ty and state, are running on platforms
containing planks with the suggestion
that the jobs they are after should
carry more pay. That will follow after
their successes at the polls and with
prospects good for second terms.
News from Washington indicates
that the greater navy enthusiasts have
gone to the extent of juggling the sta
tistics in the navy year book in such
a way as to show that the naval
strength of this country is Inferior to
that of Germany, which it is said Is
not a fact. The variety of crooks in
the world seem to be without number.
Again has the unexpected happened.
' Chicago women are not a bit reluctant
to ttU their age so as to qualify to
vote. But the suspicion will not down
that many of them are not telling the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth. But what does it matter?
While a little lie may never be en
tirely Justifiable, It Is of ttbnes inevit
able. NUTRIENTS FROM PLANTS.
Without discussing the advantages
and disadvantages of the use of foods
of animal and vegetable origin, re
spectively, we are bound to admit that
man and animal alike are dependent
on plants for nutrition. A recent
writer has said that man is a parasite
living on the plant kingdom. In so
far as mankind obtains energy by con
suming the flesh of the domestic ani
mals, only a fraction of the supply
taken by the latter in the plant prod
ucts can ever reach the sphere of use
fulness to man. The animals which
furnish food to man are expensive
converters of the energy of plants into
a form directly available for his uses.
Only a very small residue of the total
energy-Intake of such animals is left
in the tissues which they furnish as
food to man; the great bulk of what
has been consumed has become lost in
the processes of animal life during the
long periods of growth and main
tenance before the animal food-products
can be marketed. To appreciate
this, one need only consider the enor
mous amounts of vegetable food
necessary to produce the flesh of cat
tle for human consumption. ' A cow
eats a liberal plant ration daily during
several years before she Is ready for
the market.
It Is evident that It would be an
advantage if man could utilise more
directly the energy which he now se
cures only after It has been converted
by animals Into the forms that suit his
preferences. Our vegetarian friends
will at once remind us, says the Jour
nal of the American Medical associa
tion, that It has repeatedly been found
quite compatible with health and hap
piness to provide for human nutritive
needs directly and entirely' from the
plant kingdom. Hitherto the contri
butions of the plant world to the hu
man dietary have consisted of the
parts of plants which serve as storage
depots as reserve supplies for subse
quent growth. Seeds, roots, tubers
and fruits represent the chief types of
plant products which find their way
into the ration of mankind. These are
by no means all well adapted for food;
but the progress of science and the in
dustries and the ingenuity of the do
mestic arts have little by little so im
proved the form in which such ma
terials as cereals, nuts, etc., are pre
sented for human consumption, that
their utilization has become greatly
enhanced. Processes for grinding,
cooking and baking are not natural
operations; they have been evolved by
the genius of man so that he might
readily take direct advantage of the
energy which nature has stored up.
The indigestibility of "raw" starch, as
in the potato, is overcome by cookiifc?;
the resistance of grains to digestion is
minimized by grinding and cooking.
The struggle to wrest energy from
plant-products has been a long one.
There are other plants which ani
mals use freely, but which mankind
has not yet employed. The green
parts of plants, rich in food material
contain so much cellulose that they
can be utilized only to a small degree
and with enormous waste. We may
soften them by cooking and mastica
tion, without liberating their food
stuffs to any extent.
It has long been believed that it
may be possible to utilize green vege
tables so- as to- render them ' more
available for digestion and assimila
tion by man. Some experiments in
this direction have recently been car
ried on in Germany. The outcome has
been decidedly gratifying and may
pave the way for useful innovations in
the use of vegetable foods. It has
been found that bean powder fed to
man in the form of a puree contains
far more nourishment than string
beans served In the usual form. Spin
ach, carrots, cabbage, etc.,. similarly
prepared, were enjoyed with singular
freedom from the troublesome intes
tinal symptoms which so often follow
their use. The usefulness of these
plant-products appears to have been
augmented by their preliminary treat
ment. A group of vegetable products
has thus been converted into a source
of nutriment. The efficiency here re
corded is rendered the more striking
by the report from the Altona clinic
that ten ounces per day of vegetable
powder, equivalent to six pounds of
fresh plant, may easily be assimilated
an amount which in the natural
state could not be tolerated. Possibly
by suitable preparation, such plant
p.-oducts as grasses, which have hith
erto been excluded from the dietary
of man, may yet be used as direct
sources of energy in human nutrition.
FARMS AND TRAFFIC.
At a recent meeting of the Massa
chusetts Street Railway association a
speaker described the development of
traffic in farm products on a line of
the Bangor (Me.) Railway & Electric
company, notes the Electric Railway
Journal. The line is 25 miles in length
and serves a rural territory with a
population of about 2.500. The gross re
ceipts on the line were about $32,00"
per year, and a radical step toward In
creasing traffic waB taken about six
years ago when the electric freight
rates on potatoes and cordwood. the
chief products of the territory through
which the line passes, were cut in halt.
This reduction was advertised widely
and greatly helped in building up the
territory. The traffic In potatoes in
creased from eighty-one carloads In
1907 to 438 carloads in 1913, and it was
expected that 600 carloads would be
hauled in 1914. The receipts have In
creased to $65,000 per year. No reduc
tion has been made on supplies shipped
to the farms over this line, and the
company has gained a large amount of
business through the transportation of
fertilisers, farming implements and
other commodities into the territory.
' Aside from establishing a model farm
j six miles from Bangor the company
has ' organised an association for- sell
ing produce. No house 'deliveries are
made In the handling of the trolley ex
press sat nice, but ample faculties ere
given te farmers along the line In the
collection and distribution of freight
from the track. The company's model
farm Is being conducted with the co
operation of the University of Maine.
Journal Entries
A goed listener Is sure to be popu
lar with the ladies.
Women shoppers are far from al
ways being women buyers.
When there's a tang in the air ev
erybody has to go some to keep warm.
The harder a man tries to be funny
the poorer the success he usually has.
How Is It possible to reconcile the
sayings that "money talks" and "talk
Is cheap?"
J ay hawker Jots
You never can tell, advises the
Sorina- Hill New Era. Many a fellow
is a dead one long before the day of
his funeral.
Every once in a while there happens
to be a fellow who would be real lik
able, says the Norton Courier, If he
only wasn't alive. . r
A goodly number of people get Into
trnnhlA rtprlama thn JflmeRtOvn On-
timlst, because they run their mouth on
the "high" and their thinker on tne
low."
The Burr Oak Herald protests against
the residents of that town being re
ferred to as "Burr Oakers." It insists
that they should be called "Burr
Acorns."
Spring, or rather summer, seems to
have hit Lebo all right. The Star of
that place reports seeing a farmer in
town the other day with a flynet on
his horse. '
There are harbingers and harbingers.
It isn't spring yet, but we notice, re
ports the Elk City Sun, a local mer
chant getting in a new stock of bamboo
fishing poles.
Marriage and appendicitis are both
risky, observes Oasaway, the Gas Gulch
correspondent of the Wilson County
Citizen, but you can't fool with ap
pendicitis more than once.
Sharon Springs is evidently one of the
old-fashioned places where the cha
rivari is a favoriate outdoor sport. The
Western Times of that place publishes
this notice: The wedding bells are
ringing. Get your cow bells and tin
pans ready for one night next week.
A man must be a cold, Inconsiderate
and thoughtless sort of an animal. In
sists the Oberlin Times, who would not
love a wife who gets up on a wintry
morning, chops tne kindling, builds the
fire, totes in the water and coal and
prepares the morning meal for the
household.
Burlington has an apple tree that has
been in bloom, according to the Bur
lington Republican, a good part of Jan
uary. But that is not all. This tree,
it is said, blooms practically every
winter and then bears a big crop ev
ery summer, although Its fruit Is not
very good. . ..
Sporting news, in the Gove County
Republican-Gazette: It reminded us
of old times as we looked out of our
east window Tuesday and saw the
horseshoe game in progress across the
street. And a large crowd of specta
tors were there. This sport has been
sadly neglected here of late In favor
of tennis, but from the appearances
this week horseshoe has come back to
Its own.
Here's the latest case of trouble, re
ports the Howard Courant: Young
man made arrangements to go away
for a few days, to stay over Sunday.
Girl makes other arrangements to keep
from being lonesome while he Is gone.
Boy changes his plans and comes back
Sunday night and finds another young
fellow in his place in the parlor. Ther
mometer falls to 14 below, and It has
been cloudy ever since.
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.
Was there ever a lecture worth a dol
lar? Most every one has good policies he
doesn't' practice.
Very few successful merchants air their
political beliefs.
Most of the poetry In the newspapers Is
real blank verse.
In the dog world a mollycoddle is a dog
that doesn't hate cats.
Your gruess is good Judgment. If it hap
pens to be the correct one.
Most of a man's reserve will power Is at
home working in the kitchen.
No vaudeville performance as funny as
mere conversation will ever be invented.
Go to work, resolved to stick by it sev
eral years. There are few meteoric suc
cesses. Don't laugh at the family Jars of oth
ers, for your wife may knock your head
off some day.
The Gay Night Life you hear so much
about is one of the sad spectacles to the
strictly sober.
Home neonle en crazv over rellaion. al
though an original heathen should find a
more sausiactory excuse.
rtfton a minister finds himself denoun
cing the dollar and begging for contribu
tions in the same breath.
Although thin Is a busv countrv. the fire
department usually plays to a large and
appreciative audience..
When a man adds that he merely did
his duty as he saw It, depend upon it ha
recently committed a benehead.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
rprom the Philadelphia Record.
Manv a conscience loses Its voice from
overwork.
A stitch in time is worth) nine needles in
a nay-stack.
Success is the art of making nay even
w-ien it Is raining.
Tha fellow who haa been making a night
of it rather doubts that Joy cometh in the
morning.
Just because he can t sew on a button is
nn reason why a man shouldn't mend his
ways.
Tha follow who has a aold brick to sell
generally picks out the sort of fellow who
would marry for money.
Some people never succeed because they
have too little confidence in themselves
and too much in others.
"Love levels all things," quoted the
Wise Guy. "Yes, if it's on the level Itself,"
added the Simple Mug.
Blobbs "Gassier always goes to ex
tremes." Blobbs "Yes, he even regards a
high ball as the only antidote for low
spirits.
The devil had lust received Inside in
formation about two women falling In
love with the same man. . "Excuse me,
he remarked. "This la my busy day."
SiUirua "I admit that I am lackine- In
imagination." Cynlcus "i don't believe
It. The girt you are engaged to tells me
you write neautiiui love letters.
' Tommy "Pop, what is the difference
between, duty and pleasure T' Tommy's
fop "Just as mucn, my son, aa mere is
between a
By like Way
BY HARVEY PARSONS.
Canned chicken should be cheaper
now. They killed $00 Jackrabblts out
at Oreensburg t'other day.
If the plana of the state superin
tendent materialize, the girl who
teaches school part of the year, will
not have to work in a kitchen the rest
of the year, or wear clothes of the
vintage of 1(02. The plan Is to or
ganize a sort of school teachers'
union, and operate upon the legisla
ture. It Is said that Cumiskey may run
for congress from the Third district.
It is satisfactory with this depart
ment, but has he the permission of
Doc Callen?
Somehow It Is hard to get much
grief out of the report that a lot of
Ben Davis apple trees were killed by
the hot weather last summer.
After a thorough discussion of the
question, the Barber Shop Debating
society has decided that there is no
such thing as a "popular price," un
less the show Is not only free but
gives trading stamps.
The Social surveys neglected, among
other things, to survey the route
taken by High school students each
morning. Some of them hurdle
Eighth street five times, and climb
steen flights of - stairs, although a
course in outdoor exercise is not in
cluded in the curriculum.
The completion of the Panama
canal will dehorn Cape Horn, and
make useless the discovery made by
the late Mr. Magellan. That is, if
congress decides to let ships use the
canal free. There are New England
skippers who would take the Horn
route In preference to paying tolls.
Reports from San Francisco Indi
cate that Maury Diggs couldn't learn
in one lesson. They are after him
again or still, and his last offense is
Just like his first.
The Fall of Juarez Is no longer a
weekly incident. Most of the falling
Is being done by the Federals. They
are Falling Back.
The Peruvian system of changing
administrations has some advantages.
A gent decides to be president, walks
up to the Peruvian white house, fires
three shots, yips a couple of yips, and
as the incumbent beats it by the ser
vants entrance, , walks in and tele
phones for his : trunk. It Is werry
skim pie. It is much easier on the
Pee-pul, because there Is no cam
paign and no one talks tariff.
Tou can get carrots for a dollar a
bushel. But the - price of carrots
would be excessive at any price.
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY 4C MOULTON.
'.' Mona.
I can't stand Mona Lisa,
I do not like her face;
I'd hate to have Iter tagging -
Me round from place to place. ..,,;.
I'd hate to majSrjSMoua . .
I'm free to'teluyou tflat,'
imagine eating bfeakfast
Each mora aortas from that.
Her look oh. mercy, save us.
Would bore a hole in steel,
I'd hate to be as grouchy
As Mona seemed to feel.
That smile they tout so loudly
Those artists and their Ilk
I'm sure would curdle
A ten-quart pan of milk.
Perhaps she was a beauty;
But this I surely know.
She'd have a hard time singing
With any musical show.
Why fuss about that picture
Da Vinci's famous work?
She couldn't hold a candle
To our own Bille Burke.
In the Wake of the Times.
An evangelist says there are thirteen
roads to hell. Of course there is the
tango, but what are the twelve others?
Hetty Green says eating onions Is the
secret of health. But who can keep the
eating of onions a secret?
A man hunting rabbits says he shot a
S Ink-eyed skunk. Hope it was a long dis
mce rifle.
An astronomer claims that the sun will
be cold In 15,000,000 years. Well, there will
be no ice famine then.
Col. Lill Russell advises bowling lor
women who want shapely arms. Of
course they needn't hit any pins in order
to get the exercise.
Eastern man nas divorced nis wire Be
cause she drank a dozen bottles of beer
every day. It beats all what tightwads
some men are.
Hlckeyville Happenings.
The Stiver Cornet band threatens
to give a popular concert, but they
have never given a concert yet mat
has been so very popular. A move
ment is on foot to steal the uniforms
out of the town hall before the con
cert. The band can't play without
the uniforms.
The ladies' aid gave a minstrel
show at Tibbitts' opry house last
week and borrowed old Cap Whipple's
cork leg .to black up with. They burn
ed about four inches off'n it and old
Cap is walking some lopsided at pres
ent. He has been pinched three times
for intoxication, but tne ladies' aid
has come to the rescue and explained
the matter each time.
The culDret who broke Into this
office night before last and stole Ye
Editor's trousers is requested in the
name of humanity to return same and
there will be no prosecution. The
Clarion will not be much of a paper
If we cannot get out and get the news
and we can't do it wrapped up In a
horse blanket.
Signs of the Times.
Now the government is going to try
to tie a. can to the can trust.
Lillian Russell says too much kissing
Is dangerous. But how much Is too much?
The Mexican envoy was given a fine
greeting in Japan. It is reassuring to
know that a Mexican is welcome some
where. . .
Travelers are no longer allowed to carry
whisky in Texas. But there is no fun
in Texas for a sober man.
An Atlantic Hne has made a rule that
all dogs on board must be left with the
ship's butcher. Sausage for breakfast.
In the Wake of the News.
A man dropped a $1,000 bill In New
York and haa gone back to look for
it. He has more faith than Christo
pher Columbus, but not as much of a
chance of success. -
Mr. Bryan says: "All my life I
have followed my conscience." Well,
it has certainly led him a merry
chase. Maybe seme day he will catch
up with It.
New Jersey mgn scnoo giri nas
raised 89,000 pounds of tomatoes on
one acre of ground. Probably the
poor girl hasn't -had time to learn the
tango. .. i-
Scientist says birds know how to
make love. So do chickens.
THE WORLD SMTLKB ON.
Yesterday my kitty died.
Yet this morning by the side - -
Of our house a songbird came,
And it warbled Just the -same
As It did before my loss;
An the bushes just across
From the barn sang when the breeze
Struck their twigs; and all the trees
Acted Just as glad and gay
As they used to every day
'Fore my kitty died! The sun
Bhlned with brightness. Never one
Seemed to know how much I cried
cause my pretty kitty died.
How can all the world smile on
When my precious one has gone?
How can joy and happiness
Still exist while my distress
Seems to flood this great big earth?
Can't they understand the worth
Of my loss? Or can't they know
Of the dreadful, awful blow
That has fallen on my heart?
Why. I thought myself a part
Of the world; thought when I sighed
I would find that till had cried;
Yet ti.e sun shines Just the same
As before my sorrow came!
A. Walter Utting. In the New York
Times.
The Evening Story
Mysterious Martha.
(By Catherine Cooper.)
Orayson let fall the grotesque
knocker on the carved door of the
Miller residence on the upper east
side.
"Miss Miller is not in. sir," said
Binks, the butler, who had swung
open the door.
"I will wait," said Greyson. and
would have suited the action to the
word.
"Ahem! A Miss Miller said she
would probably .be gone six weeks."
the butler Informed Orayson. His
features expressed a deep disapproval
of the errant nature of his young' mis
tress. -Again, sne said she mlarht re
turn tomorrow."
"I will not wait." laughed Gray
son, and returned to the cozy seat in
his limousine.
Despite his effort not to feel Irri
tated over Martha Miller's absence he
round himself decidedly so. This was
the third time during his acquaintance
with her that Martha had gone off
suddenly on some mysterious trip,
leaving no address and no knowledge
of her whereabouts.
The set in which Martha disported
her beauty and charm, discussed
these trips with open and sometimes
none too friendly manner. Ugly ru
mors found lodgement in one or two
of the feminine gossips' tales. The
men pondered, missed. Martha's dainty
beauty and ready wit. and ceased to
worry until she again quickened their
nearx Deats with Her return.
The day Grayson called upon Mar
that he had almost decided to DroDose
to her. He had known himself to be
deeply In love with her for some
time, yet he feared his own vagabond
moods that came upon him as sud
denly as the falllnsr of a. ntn, vr
loathed society, and stood It only for
the sake of his mother, who save
teas galore. Yet Grayson was con
ventional to the extent that no one
suspected his inner revolt. Martha,
too, had helped to make society
agreable, and for her sake he permit
ted himself to be bored by the hour
attending the opera, teas and dinners.
"i can not stand them without hr.
however," he told himself, as his car
whirled away from the door."
'me outcome was that Ornvwin had
his suit case packed hurriedly and
started off on one of his vagabond pil
grimages. His sleeping , bag and old
khaki suit had been surreptitiously
smuggled in the case when Jinks, his
vaiei, naa xor tne moment turned his
back.
It was a most disreputable but
happy Bob Grayson who chugged
along the Long Island roads on his
still more disreputable motorcycle. Not
even Jinks would have known that
the man was his master.
However, Grayson was happy, con
tended and hungry as he neared the
bit of woods on the Sound that had
otten sheltered hm over night. He
would make a fire, broil bacon and
make coffee in a tin can and later roll
himself up In his sleeping tent and
sleep the sleep of the carefree. In the
morning he would be on his way to
another and more remote abiding
place.
In the meantime, Martha Miller was
as free, contented and happy as the
man wno would pernaps have pro
posed to her had she not escaped his
call.
In a tiny, whitewashed cottage, with
not more than three still smaller
rooms, she was cooking a savory stew
over a coai lire, tier wonderful gold
en hair was hanging In a braid down
the back of a faded blue gingham
dress, and she was humming a little
snatch of some street song.
But In the tiny patch of garden
an old man lingered over his briaht-
hued flowers. He was the owner of
the cottage and gardener in the Miller
family.
Martha tripped lightly out to the
wooden pump and drew a pall of
iresn spring water, on ner way back
to the cottage she stopped to speak
to the old man.
"David, I couldn't possibly live If
you dian t let me come down here and
share your dear little house. I already
feel like a child of six, who has step
ped into fairyland. I have written ten
successful stories, for which you are
to have the checks, and now I am go
ing to write a novel with you as the
hero." Martha laughed gaily and car
ried her bucket into the little white
washed kitchen.
A great black cat was purring be
side the stove, and a canary hung In
the sunny window. On a wide deal
table lay manuscripts In Joyful dis
order, and a small typewriter. A tea
pot and a heavy china cup gave evl
dence that Martha drank tea during
moments of inspiration.
The savory stew on the stove was
permeating the air.
The man who had approached the
cottage sniffed it nungrily and Knock
ed a third time on the door.
Martha clicked busily at her type
writer and heard nothing save the
voice of inspiration.
She arose swiftly to her feet.
second later, staring with wide eyes at
the man who had Intruded himself
uDon her.
"Bobby Grayson!" she gasped.
"You disreoutable tramp!"
"Martha Miller!" returned Bobby
wonderingly. "you ragged beggar
maid!" His curiosity then - broke
bounds and he poured forth a volley
of nuestions.
Martha laughed in spite of her
wrath at having been discovered.
"It is just simply that I detest pink,
yellow and green teas, morning musi
calee and society in general! I fly to
this haven of refuse when I can not
stand it to be decent to people an
other moment." . Her voice trembled.
"These are the only really happy
hours I have In my whole lire."
"The only ones Martha?" ques
tioned Grayson looking into her eyes.
"I have been hoping lately that you
were not unhappy at times." He
drew a aten nearer her.
A brilliant color suffused Martha's
cheeks. She cast a fleeting glimpse
at him. ,.
"Yon- are such a dear, dlaa-raceful
looking tramp. Have you lost your
mind, or merely your money?",, she
questioned with a swift smile. -
"Neither. I am only on one of my
semi-annual trips into the land of
vagabonds. It fat the Joy of my life
this getting down to nature,-- and I
was half afraid to tell you I love you,
for you seemed so terribly conven
tional." "I did not want to seem eccentric."
admitted Martha. . "That was my
reason for concealing my "
"Dreams?" suggested Grayson soft
ly. "Well, such dreams as you have
apparently been having are worth con
cealing from a curious public." His
eyes roamed about the cozy, humble
abode then returned to the girl. "I
would not rob yon of a single hour of
thisi if you will sometimes take me
into dreamland with you. I love you.
girl." He held open his arms and
when she slipped into them he drew
her close. (Copyrighted 1914, by the
McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Evening Chat
BY RUTH CAMERON.
A Plea for the Unlucky Lucky Folks.
The little girl across the way is for
tunate enough to have a father who be
lieves that a child needs two parents for
its bringing up aa well as Its begetting.
His wife does not have to tie the modern
father-mother, for her husband. Instead
of acting merely as a kind of walking
pocketbook for the children, takes an ac-
uve interest in their dally uvea, He
even likes to know about little Elisabeth's
home lessons, and sometimes when she
cannot master her sums he helps her
with them, and thereby hangs my tale.
I said Elisabeth waa fortunate to have
a father who would help her with her
sums, and so she is. Yet, there is a very
big fly in the ointment.
I'll let Elizabeth tell you about It as
she told her mother and me.- Yeu see I
happened to be calling there the day
she brought 'home her ''report card."
That momentous document contained a
long desired "A" in arithmetic, beside
several other excellent marks. Her
mother was delighted, and Elisabeth was
evidently on the verge of tears. A ques
tion or two and the storm broke. "It
doesn't do me any good to get 'A,' " sob
bed Elizabeth, "all the girls say I ought
to get high marks when father does all
my sums for me and heipa me with all
my lessons."
"But he doesn't do your sums, dear,"
protested her mother indignantly; "he
just helps you to find the way to do
them once in a while when they are very
hard."
"I know it," sobbed Elizabeth, "nobody
believes that. Just because he was a
school teacher once they say he does all
my work for me."
As I listened to little Elisabeth's protest
against tne unjust judgment of the world,
another occasion flashed into my mind. A
group of people were discussing one of the
young men of the neighborhood who had
married the daughter of his employer.
"Pretty soft for him," said one. "You
know he has been promoted right" over
the heads of older men and men who
have been there three times as lone aa
he," said another. "No wonder he flashes
Dy in an automobile' while the rest of us
are still using shanks mare," commented
a third.
Now, aa It happens, the young man In
question is very brilliant and stands head
and shoulders above his critics. Of
course, it is impossible to say that he
would have risen as rapidly if he ha4
noi Deen wonting ior ms xatner-ln-law,
but I think it is equally as impossible to
say that he would not. And yet, never
in the world will he receive credit fee his
rise. -jJ- V - "" :r-"K".;,.: ..
I know another man who' actually re
fused to go into his father's business on
this account. "No matter what I do I'll
never get the credit for it," he said, "I'd
rather start out for myself and then peo
ple will know that whatever I accom
plish I've won by my own ability and
not by favor and I'll know it, too." He
eventually made emphatically good in
another man's employ, and, having proved
his worth beyond cavil, entered into part
nership with his father.
Little Elizabeth's experience Is typical
of the world's judgment. If a man has
some advantage of circumstance over his
fellow men, whatever success he may win
is attributed to that advantage and none
to his personal worth.
It is pleasant to have advantages, but,
as Elisabeth found, advantages have
their disadvantages. There Is a fly In the
ointment, and to one of a proud spirit
it is sometimes a mighty big drawback.
New Railways In Spain.
The three lines of railway through the
heart of the Pyrenees, between France
and Spain, now under construction, will
be of great commercial value, as shorter
and more direct means of transit than
have hitherto existed.
The line between Jaea, Spain, and Olo
ron, France,-will be finished, it is thought,
in 1917.- In June, 1914, the Chemln de Fer
du Midi of France will begin to operate
that portion reaching from Oloron to
Bedons. The work from Bedons to Estant
haa been taken over by the contractors
building the Somport tunnel, who will
prepare the roadbed for rail, and it is
thought that the tunnel will be completed
during the coming year. Work on the
Spanish part is proceeding rapidly.
The Gaceta de Madrid of October tt
publishes a law submitted to the cortes
on the 25th, providing for changing the
gauge of the connecting railway from
near Saragossa to Jaca from the Spanish
standard gauge (5.48 feet) to the normal
European gauge (4.72 feet) and for the
necessary changes in the rolling stock.
Evidences of the increasing prosperity
of Spanish railways are numerous. Dur
ing the past ten years passengers have
Increased from S1.O0O.OOO per year to 68,000,
000 per year; freight from 18,000,000 tons to
82,000,000 tons, and railway receipts from
270,000.000 pesetas to 394,000,000 pesetas (gold
peseta equals $0,193). Where ten years ago
the capacity of the factories for building
cars was but 000 per year, it la now over
2,000 cars per year. The Anuarlo de erra
carrlles for 1913 shows the following roll
ing stock in use on all railways in Spain:
Passenger locomotives, 330; freight, 1,223;
combined passenger and freight, 830; a
total of 2,383. Passenger cars of all classes
number 6,075, while of the 46,675 freight
cars 1,950 are used for baggage and fruit
transDortation: 19.284 are box ears and
25,606 are gondolas and flat cars. Madrid
Cable to the ew York Bun.
"on't take that Job that's offered you.
my cirl. Take a good man's love Instead."
"What does the Job pay?" "Sixty dol
lars. I think.- -wnat aoes tne good man
maker' "Forty dollars." "I'll take the
job." Baltimore American.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
Pleasure Is mostly brainless activity.
For a -sure thing crop, sow wild oats.
Even a homely girl looks good If she
has dimples. - -, -
The chap who Is out for the dust and
gets it has the grit,
Manv a man thinks he is la a hole when
It Is merely a rut.
One can never tell -what a day win
bring forth or a night, either.
Sometimes an ugly duckling makes a
better match than a pretty goose.
Unless a man is a good collector he may
lose the living the world owes him.
The wise man appoints himself chair),
man of the advisory board of his own af
fairs. , . - -.
It is sometimes easier to get what you
like than It Is to keep on liking It after
you get It.
It's useless to argue with a man who
draws his statistics from his imagination
and It la useless to argue, anyway.
It la a good thing that a few old fash
ioned people believe that street cars are
nut for the benefit of the pubho test pad ef
tne
Kansas Comment
TUB BABT.
iere to usually considerable ex
citement in the home when a new
baby arrives, given us old men well
remember the proud , feeling that
welled up in our hearts when we first
looked upon our first-born. So little,
so helpless, but what possibilities we
could see in the little bit of humanity
presented for our inspection. The man
or woman who have never had this
privilege have been denied one of the
greatest blessings that come to people
in this world of trouble and hardships.
The child has no choice in the matter
but Is ushered into the home and we
are glad to say that in the great ma
jority of cases the little stranger Is
perfectly welcome and even if the
table Is well filled, whenever It gets
big enough to sit In its high chair the
others wUl sit a little closer together
and the baby will have its place Just
as well as the oldest one of the family.
Sometimes however, there is a case
where parents are so devoid of natural
feeUng that the little one Is unwel
come. How we pity a babe in sur
roundings of this kind. The English
language utterly fails to express our
contempt for a parent that considers
a child an incumbrance that they
would gladly be rid of. There ought
not to be any punishment too great
for such parents. To abandon a little
helpless Infant is the one great crime
ef the age. Kind women In every city
of tne iana nave established homes
for these little waifs and no nobler
charity was ever arranged. To the
kind parent there Is no more pleasing
duty to perform than to provide the
needed things for the baby and watch
it develop Into 'the strong healthy
young person. We never meet the lit
tle folks going to school but we
enjoy seeing their bright faces and
their active little ways. And after
they have attained to young man and
womanhood how proud we are when
they attain prominence In any of the
walks of life. Then let us give the
baby a chance for In 20 years It will
be a high school student, and In 40
years wlil be the leading man and wo
man In the community. Oberlin Her
ald. a r.(n ry-imnRTNTC for all.
The railways are now setting ex
amples of politeness to the commun
ity. A "campaign of politeness' on the
Southern Pacific includes little placards
attached to the telephone stands in the
offices of the company. These "re
minders" convey the following advice:
"When you answer the telephone be
pleasant. It costs you nothing and in
your heart you want to be liked. As
you take off the receiver, say, 'South
ern Pacific,' and then give your name
or department. It saves time. Said
pleasantly. It is a good advertisement
for yourself and the company. Thank
the man who helps you or gives you In
formationhe likes it. Remember, on
the telephone, the voice Is everything.
See that It Is friendly." It Is a good
doctrine for others besides railroads.
Abilene Reflector.
NEWSPAPERS and DIPLOMACY.
'When-the president expresses the hope
that. American, nswpapere will .not -speculate
about foreign relations, does he
mean that they are to express no opin
ions about foreign policies of the govern
ment, or that they are to suppress all
news that has a beating upon such poli
cies? Must they refrain from publishing
the fact that California congressmen are
demanding tha exclusion of Japanese
labor? Or that Hobson on the floor of the
house of representatives predicts a war
with Japan within a year? Or that naval
officers are clamoring for four new battle
ships? Or that congress -has violated the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty to subsidize the
coastwise shipping monopoly? Or that
Colombia's claims against the United
States for the forcible seizure of the
Canal Zone are still unsatisfied? Or that
there is no longer a commercial treaty
with Russia? Or that the United States
senate long refused to ratify the arbitra
tion treaties? Foreign policies are no
more sacred than domestic policies. In the
long run they are much less Important,
and we do not quite see how discussion la
to be prevented. Indeed, such discussion
is highly necessary, except in Russia,
where the people are supposed to have no -concern
whatever with the doing of their
government. It la undoubtedly true that
newspaper discussion of foreign policies
Is sometimes embarrassing, particularly
when it is based on false information; yet
the injury done to International relations
by such discussion is small in compari
son with the injury done by vain, med
dlesome, and ambitious diplomacy. Most
international misunderstandings are
brought about by blundering diplomatists.
Most wars are brought about by diplo
matic and political Intrigue. As a his
torian the president is doubtless well
aware of this fact- The president in his'
Mexican policy has had an Illuminating
example of the value of openness and
frankness in dealing with foreign rela
tions. He took the country into his con
fidence, and aa a result practically every
newspaper of importance In the United
States is holding up fats hands. If he
will take the country into his confidence
In respect to his other foreign policies,
he can reasonably expect an equal meas
ure of support. Of all the myths of gov
ernment the most ridiculous myth is that
of diplomacy the notion that Internation
al Ml,tlMik must be conducted In hM-
and-seek behind closed doors lest each
side might miss an opportunity to cheat
the other. There Is nothing in It. The
more nations know about the purposes
of one another provided their- purposes
are honest the less room there is for sus
picion and misunderstanding, which are
ever twin causes of strife. Let the presi
dent remember that publicity, not secrecy,
is the great friend of peace, and that la a
free country the people have always a
tight to know about the International
agreements to which their government
seeks to commit them New York World.
Celeste "Gracious, monsieur. How Is
It that the teas material used la my gown,
the more It costs?" Mona. Wurthe "Ah,
madame, et Is because of se art to create
se Illusion sat you are well gowned."
Judge.
"I wish I knew who our youngest has
been playing with." "Why 7" - "She seems
to be learning things that I do not wish
her to. Last night when she finished her
little prayer she added a postscript: 'Lord,
preserve us or, if You can't do that. "
us.' "Houston Post,
"What do you understand by edible
fungi' " "It has somethhV to do with
mushrooms an' toadstools," replied Far
mer CorntosseL But whether It's what
you swaller or what happepns to you artar
ward. I wouldn't like to say without
writin' to the department." WudZ?
Star.
i writing up a
diary nothing happens to you worth, 1J.11.
lng about." Washington Star.
"What's TtnKann'a .
choice between setting the money mm JH
a castle In Spain Z -JL-0.
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