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Geprfea j?tate Journal
By FRANK P. MAC LENS AN.
(Entered July 1, Vtii. as second-class
latter at the poatetflee at Topeka, Kaa
::der the act of congress.! . -
VOLUME XXXVI. .No. 7
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I'M.)
Old General Rain is always welcome
in Kansas but never more o than on
his recent visit'.' '
Oklahoma now holds the proud dis
tinction of having permitted the lynch
ing of a negro woman.
" It is pointed out by. the Washington
Post that the aviator that flies upside
down is soon planted right side up. .
When it comes to waving the flag
an4 making the eagle scream. Champ
Clark is certainly there with the goods.
Egypt is said to present a rich field
for United States enterprise. . And
there is also still plenty of room for it
at home. ' '
Topeka loses a wortb.-while jsitizen
in the death of Sam Barber. And
there are many, friends to mourn his
untimely end. .
Maybe the battle of Torreon is be
ing prolonged because of the terms of
the contracts between Villa and the
moving picture men.
Recent developments indicate that
the leaders in the house of representa
tives are such only in name when they
happen to disagree with- President
Wilson.
. Notwithstanding the fact that they
bloomed rather continuously during
the winter season, the dandelions are
showing as much vigor as though they
had been resting for months.
Those old "fashioned hailstones of
the size of bens' eggs have again visit
ed several sections of Kansas, unless
certain observers have permitted their
sight to be influenced by their im
aginations.
If Colonel Roosevelt is still obsessed
with the notion that he will again be
prerident, he should spend some of his
le'sure in Washington getting pointers
from Mr. Wilson on how to manipu
late congress.
These "cyclones" ' that have been
frisking about in Kansas during the
past few days would be nothing but
wind" and "rain" or "hail" storms in
any other state of the union. Out on
the Pacific coast they even go so far
as to refer to earthquakes as "fires."
In one breath Champ Clark pro
tested vehemently against the repeal
of the Panama canal tolls exemption
on the ground that it was in violation
of a platform pledge of the Demo
cratic party. In another he voiced his
idea that if President Wilson's admin
istratlon was a success he would be
re-elected. And there happens to be
a Democratic platform pronouncement
in favor of a single presidential term.
Senate opponents of the repeal of
the Panama canal tolls exemption may
be able to delay the final vote in that
body on the measure that passed the
house in such an emphatic fashion.
That it will eventually receive the
endorsement of the senate, though, is
now a foregone conclusion. An
authoritative poll shows that SB sena
tors.- at least, are rtadv tn vnt fnr
w, , . , iner la oasea on tne Autnors experi-
the repeal. This is a safe majority, 1 eDjCe in ayln, of thirst on the top of
and several more senators are likely) a mountain! While another student
k to fall In line. ' ': n - ' gave the enlightening Information that
THE LOAF OF BREAD. .','
The wide-spread propaganda for the
purity of the food and drug products
of this country has resulted In the nec
essary attempt to standardise all artic
les which enter Into these categories.
In the case of certain familiar materials
like sugar and coffee this has not In
volved any formidable difficulties. The
question aa to what constitutes mince
pie, on the other hand, has aroused
storms of claim and counterclaims on
behalf of the recipes of different reg
ions and generations. Like numerous
other illustrations which might be cited,
this experience has served to call at
tention to the really great diversity of
our food concoctions and the pardon-'
able laxneas In the use of current terms
that appear in the American menu. One
may well apply here the proverb: De
gustibus non disputandum eat,. -It
might be expected that so common
an article of diet as bread would ex
hibit some uniformity of composition.
Tet the chemist of the Connecticut ag
ricultural experiment station reports
that 200 loaves of bread, representing
the product of 79 Connecticut, one
Springfield (Mass.) and three New Tork
bakeries "showed wide variations In
all their ingredients." For example,
the moisture content ranged from 27
to 40 per cent, so that In some In
stances the bread contained excessive
amounts of water. The fat present also
showed a wide range, from 0.08 to
4.37 per cent. These differences are
largely due to the methods of ' the
bakers. In some cases only flour,
yeast and salt are used, while In others
milk, butter, lard and sugar, either
alone or in combination, are employed.
The variations in fat are also due' in
part to the fact that In the process
of baking a part of the fat is destroy
ed. In some samples the amount ' of
fat found Is much lower than could
have resulted from the use of any brand
of flour.
A. comparison of the variations in a
five-cent loaf of bread is interesting in
other directions also. The actual
amount of dry matter per loaf in the
Connecticut samples ranged from '7.9. to
12.7 ounces; the average weight of the
loaf in nine cities ranged from 12.9 to
15.2 ounces. The cheapness of the three
and four-cent loaves indicated a real
saving, as far as quantity is concerned,
because the decrease in price was great
er than the decrease in. weight. As
the price of a loaf of bread has re
mained stable at five cents, while the
cost of the ingredients has increased,
changes in the real cost of the nutrients
of bread must be sought in the changes
of size, or composition of the loaf. Ac
cording to investigations made in New
Jersey in 1893, loaves costing four and
five cents weighed from 12.7 to 21.8
ounces, average 16.4 ounces. In 1895 in
New Jersey 58 per cent of the five-
cent loaves weighed over 16 ounces, and
83 per cent over 15 ounces, while in 1912
in Connecticut only 7 per cent weighed
over 16 ounces, and only 16 per cent
over 15 ounces. Assuming similar con
ditions in these two states, the average
weight of the five-cent loaf has shrunk
since 1895 from 16.4 to 14 ounces, or 15
per cent. When all has been said, ob
serves The Journal of the American
Medical Association, the student of nu
trition will doubtless still remark that
feread is cheap at any price.
WHAT INTERVENTION MEANS.
If intervention were 'undertaken by
us it would be with the announcement
of unselfish motives, writes a contrib
utor to "The Progress of the World,"
iu the American Review of Reviews
for April. Our government .would
proclaim to the world its purpose to
protect the Mexican people from
themselves; to help them establish
conditions of peace; order, and justice;
to protect the lives and property alike
of Mexicans and of foreigners, and to
gain neither territorial advantage nor
political ascendancy for itself. There
would be all-sorts of renunciations in
advance. Congress, by Joint resolu
tion, would pledge the honor of the
United States to a merely temporary
occupation, and to full withdrawal as
soon as order Had been restored. We
should have won in the end, and
established apparent peace; but we
should soon have withdrawn and Mex
ico would still have its own future to
work out. Meanwhile, we ahould
have sent several hundred thousands
of our young men into Mexico, with
the sacrifice of many lives, with the
public expenditure -of from five hun
dred millions to a thousand millions
of dollars, and private economic sacri
fice and loss to a far greater extent.
It is true, as Senator Sheppard admits,
that the desperate conditions in Mex
ico have, resulted in the unfortunate
loss of the lives of Americans and oth
er foreigners, and in the annihilation
of property Interests to a large
amount. But a war of Intervention
would destroy all that remains of for
eign property in Mexico before peace
could be established, besides the in
comparably greater economic sacri
fices Involved in the expense of our
undertaking.
Some Recent "Howlers." ,
Here are some fresh "howlers"
ludicrous errors in English actually
perpetrated by students In colleges or
secondary schools. Possibly such
"howlers" have sometimes been in
ventions, but as truth Is stranger than
fiction, it will be quite able to pro
duce the equal of anything that may
have been invented. In the personal
observation of teachers and profes
sors, communicated to me as I come
in contact with them officially, there
will be found some of the wildest va
garies of the human mind or brain.
Let me mention a few.
A teacher in a New Tork high
school the other day had "to correct a
paper that began: "Abraham Lin
coln was born without any education."
In the same school a pupil, in trying
to render Into simple English the fig
urative expression, "Hitting the bull's
eye." defined it as "Shooting a cow In
the eye!",
In the Middle State college, a stu
dent 'stated that "The Ancient Mari
ner" Is based on the author's expert-
"Chaucer got the Ideas of his poems
from Macau lay's 'Lays of Ancient
Rome.' " The high school boy who.
In translating, described ho so-called
"gentle sex" the "tender sender" had
possibly some excuse for it as did the
girl In the same school, trusting to
her ocular memory of a certain ad
vertisement, for giving as an example
of "vegetable fat" leaf lard.
A Middle SUte university professor
told me that one of their students, who
was delivering an oration - on "Mar
tyrs," spoke of the anguish of Socrates
till ha finally "drank the shamrock."
' There are still left one or two in
stances, which have appeared in print
from the pen of a professor in Eng
lish whom I well know. '
"An agnostic is one who believes
Just what he thinks."
"An infidel is one who has a reli
gion of his own."
"A man is plasmatic when . he .' is
lasy-llke."
In a southern normal school, the
subject of the lesson was "Hood." A
pupil on the floor, after giving the
leading characteristics of .the poet,
closed by saying. "And he was the au
thor of the Tale of a Shirt.' "
One wonders how such students ac
tually skate over the thin Ice of an
examination and ultimately make port
in successful graduation. Boston
Transcript.
Journal Entries
Every day Is wash-day with all its
terrors for the small boy.
Rewards are seldom as large as
those who get them believe they
should be. .
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Poor folk don't seem to need nearly
as many surgical operations as the
rich ones.
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who thought he was an ex
pert on the accordion?
Nobody appears to be -mourning
much over the evident shortage in the
crop of spring poetry.
J ay hawker Jots
Dry Creek social note in the Clifton
News: Little Opal Rank is entertain
ing the chlckenpox this week. .
When a man loafs he either whittles
or talks politics, says the Minneapolis
Messenger, but wnen a woman loaxs
she does fancy work. - ,
It seems to the Burr Oak Herald
that some people don't feel just right
unless they let some traveling -"grafter"
ating them every once in a while.
The Jamestown Kansan defines "the
unwritten law" as the one the candi
date told you he was going to have
enacted immediately after his election.
The wise farmer, as the Elk Falls
Reflector says, who has land that will
produce alfalfa' goeth forth to sow
and he sows it just so; not Just so so.
Probably Editor Smith of the Elk
Falls Reflector meant "aeroplane,"
but he said: This is the automobile
age. Tou can scarcely look up with
out seeing one.
An American is on trial in Iola for
the murder of a Mexican, notes Char
ley Blakesley In the Kansas City Star,
and he adds: Justice, antiquated as
it ir, is quicker in Kansas. jU)Aji IX is in
Mexico. ...,. w--
A rhyme of queries from the Ed
mr.nd New Leaf: Where can a man
buy a cap for his knee? Or a key for
a lock of his hair? Can his eyes be
ca'Jed an academy, because there are
pupils there?
Related by the Cawker City Ledger:
An estimable woman, after gazing
loner and lovingly at a table decorated
in honor of a prospective bride, said:
"Oh, how pretty! If there's anything
more beautiful In heaven, then I want
to go there at once."
According to the Randolph Enter
prise one of the old signs that fore
tells good crops is the wind blowing
from the north as the winter season
clofes and the spring season opens:
and it advises: Plant all the ground
you have and tend it faithfully.
Zur Gesundheit! is the heading the
Hamilton County Republican puts
over an article giving facts and figures
about the excellent health conditions
in western Kansas. And most of the
renders of the paper will probably
have to take it for granted that it's
appropriate.
A society item, in the Netawaka
Talk: A lady from the Kickapoo re
serve north of here was in the city
yesterday. She purchased a pound
of "Horseshoe" tobacco and had ex
pectorated half of it on the sidewalk
before she left town. Some' of those
lovely Kickapoo Indian maidens cer
tainly know brow to squeeze juice out
or a plug.
Globe Sight.
BT TBI ATCHISON GLOBE.
A money-maker doesn't always look It.
Every hour is a rush hour on some jobs.
It is too bad so many boys take after
their fathers.
Whiskers are no disguise of the fact
mat a man cnews tooacco.
Farm life would be more lonely if there
were more time for loneliness.
Every man feels that he should organize
some kind of a "New Era" club. . .
Tou shouldn't worry, although we un
derstand that advice isn't much of a pre
ventive. bometimes the self-made man doesn't
show it. which is among his greatest
triumphs.
Cel. Lillian Russell and the other beauty
uuuEiera aren i uaei v i run out or. raw
Bimenai,
Nature arranged the lonsest days for
harvest time, and has handed man several
otoer not ones.
In the days of midnight oil, it may have
wn uinwrat, out me late nour eiec
trisity Isn't largely devoted to study.
"I don't remember the first dollar I
- . ....... ui, a,, djvmi my Boy
hood days on the farm it probably hap
pened quite a vrhlle before I got my first
dollar." Rufe Hoskins.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
Cold cash often melts marble hearts.
Money Is a man's greatest trouble If he
hasn't any. '
Some people tell the truth because they
can't think of a suitable lie.
Money talks, but It never gets a chance
to say mucn at oargain aaies.
About all most arguments are fit for Is
to promote unnecessary conversation.
.ut a girl who' Is an expert at mfctng
angei case may, nave a aemon COS posi
tion. After a girl gets married she helps her
gin menas to ute same son or trouble.
Nothing looks snore pitiful- than an old
woman arrayed in her daughters castoff
finery.. -''" ; :-....,.- .
It costs some people a lot to live be
cause their neighbors are afflicted with
the borrowing habit.
Occasionally we see a married man
itnar thrown Ufa looklnar aa If-bk
By tne Way
BT BARVBT PARSONS.
The battle of Torreon was advertised
as a finish fight, winner take all. But
it appears that during the seventh in
termission. Battling Velasco and Kid
Villa got together and agreed to close
the Incident by dividing such pinchable
property as Is left In Torreon on a basis
of 40-60, leaving it to a newspaper de
cision as to who sot the "shade."
J. Ham Lewis, the noted vlewer-with-
alarm. is dividing the United States- up
among the other nations. He has neg
lected to assign Kansas, so we are In
doubt, at this time,, whether we go with
the western concession to Japan, or
have been presented to England by a
southward extension of the Canadian
border.
And, speaking "of Canadian affairs:
Judging by an exhibit left on the east
walk of the state house, the Canadian
Club met In extraordinary session there
last night. -
Mr. Bear's telephone explanation re
minds one of the story .of the ancient
cullud lady who was retailing pies
near an army camp. A soldier asked
for market quotations and she answer
ed: "Ten cents a piece two foh a quah-
tan." "But that ain't right," explained
the soldiers, "that makes the second
pie cost more than the first." "Ah, don'
caih nuthin"bout dat." replied the pie
merchant, "dats de price ah done set
on dem pastries, and dats what
dey cost-es yo all if you eats MAH
pies an furthermoh' dey is de'onlist
pies bein' sold In ris vicinity."
Another rare thing about Mr. Bear's
story is that, -only on rare occasions is
400 names and addresses in a wad ref
ferred to as an "anonymous communi
cation, -t ' -
Quailhunter Kennedy. ' like Al Jen
nings, has discovered that grand lar
ceny doesn't pay, but that talking about
it. afterward does. . ; ,
"Two years ago." says Mr. Pierce of
Junction City, "the country was full of
political rabbits we didn't know what
men stood for.'. - In looking over the
list of candidates that seem likely to
get on the ticket without opposition, it
is easy to see what men stand for now.
They stand for a-GOOD DEAL. The
question of two years ago may have
Deen what they stood for, but now it
is why they stand for it.
The police declare ' that the report
that Madame calve, the prima donna,
was robbed of all her jewels by her
valet, is not a press agent's yarn. That
point being settled, the only Question
remaining is: what the samhill was the
Madame doing with a valet?
On the -Spur
of the Moment
BT ROY K. MOULTON.
The Robin.
The robin Is a handsome bird.
And musical, forsooth.
But morally he is absurd.
He cannot tell the truth.
- . - i-. 1 -.--:.
I saw . one out in my-front yard,
And merrilv did he sinar.
I thought that he sang, by the card
Ann liikl, mi wsw iwu spring. .
S: - -. ' '
Somehow I did believe In him
I took my stormhouse down.
I put up my screens with joyous vim.
For hadn't spring struck town?
I let my furnace fire go out.
i put on a v. u s.
The sort of clothes that reach about
As far down as the knees.
- ' - .
And then the blizzard came along.
The worst I'd ever heard. '.
I listened for the robin's song, -'
But couldn't find the bird.,
. How to Be an Aristocrat.
Eat dinner at night.
Mortgage your house and buy an auto
mobile. .
Let the groceryman and meat dealers
wait awhile.
Borow enough money to join a couple
of country -clubs, i
When there Is a! reception, have gar
ments sent up . on approval and wear
them to the .reception.
Place your nose at an anele of fortv-
five degrees when you pass an honest
woraingman on the street.
Refer to your Ford as a "motah" and
shun the street cars on all occasions.
Forget the letter "r" In all of your con
versation and cultivate a fondness for
grapefruit.
Make a loud noise through the nose
wnen anybody mentions such a plebeian
thing as work.
Signs of the Times.
Huerts is recruiting boys into his
Mexican army. They probably will be old
men by the time the Mexican war is
over.
One of the little ironies of life Is the
fact that the householder must shovel
snow and coal at the same time.
Becker Is doing enough talking to make
up for all the time he lost while In the
death house at SIna- Slnir.
That Chautauqua (N. T.) robber and
outlaw, by the way, was In no way con
nected with the lecture circuit.
If Texas declares war on MIva It lo
gins to look as though Texas would have
to fieht it out alone.
Some of our musical comedy "stars" are
finding their level as successful cabaret
conductors.
If March goes out like a lambthis year
B out in a very expensive way.
Dorothy Dix says a woman demands
that the man she loves be a sweetheart,
slave, meal ticket, cash register and phil
osopher. . i -
Philadelphia matt aged eighty-six is
serving his seventh sentence for counter
feiting. A man of his age should know
that counterfeiting Is about the poorest
wy io maae money.
Oeorge Bailey says Texas will raise
ww.uw.wv watermelons this year. She
doubtless will raise a lot of something
else not mentioned in polite society. ,
Sulzer says he will regan 'the governor
ship of New Tork. Sulzer talks like the
celebrated water or which his name re-
minas us.
A train bound for the New Orleans
saarai lira 8 was looted by robbers, which
will be a severe blow to the New Orleans
noieuieepers. . .
In other words. Detroit has sub
pressed every sort of vice excepting
i lie iango. ,
Undo- Abner.
As long as the telea-ranh oneratora.
baseball players and street car conductors
hold out there Is going to be a market
tor iinecut cnewing tobacco.
I never see a statesman or an actor
tnat nad a cigar, named after him that
would smoke on of 'em on a bet.
My idee of nothing to brag about is a
furria count far a sea in-law.
' Miss Amy Pringle says she had one can
didate f er -her heart and hand who was a
one-arm ea man, but he wasn t much of a
success at It, for when he took her out
rldln' he had to hold the lines in his
teeth and then couldn't ' git more'n half
way round. .
Human nature is curious.- The feller
that raises the first flag and lets off the
first firecracker on a legal holiday is
gen any tne last ts report at the recruttln'
Of : THE ALARM CLOCK.
Each night I bravely wind It up .
And set it by my head.
Then say my "Now. I lay me down" --
And snuaiv wa tn bed.
And in the watches of the night' " -
I think of it with dread.
So grim and wakeful sitting there.
With minatory ticks.
To sound its dreadful reveille -
At quarter after six.
I wake up wondering what's the Urns,
And strike a match to see.
It looks me coldly In the face
And answers half past three.,
I hear the patter of the hall
Against the window pane,
Then turn me In my downy couch
And seek for sleep again.
I think about the bitter cold
And try to sleet in vain.
And, ltke a felon in his cell.
Condemned and all forlorn,
I feel it is a death watch set
To sound my doom at morn.
When, after tossing to and fro, - -1
And tribulations long. ,
I fall into a fitful sleep.
It sounds its baneful gong.
I boil indignant out of bed
And choke the strident pest.
While passions primitive and fierce
Possess my angry breast.
Oh. how I'd like to take a club
And knock it galley-west.
-Thomas Lomax Hunter, in the Rich
mond Times-Dispatch.
The Evening Story
l Two in Society.
(By Molly McMaster.) ,
When Billy Dean first saw her and
heard her sing at the Beverlys' dinner-dance,
he thought he had never
seen so altogether beautiful a woman.
And her voice? It had penetrated to
the very depths of Billy's being. He
sighed. Women, such as Clair Ray
mer, were not for him..
Billy hoped 'to be presented to her.
yet he feared the result. Instinctive
ly, he felt that to meet the beautiful,
exquisitely gowned girl was to love
her. . ' -
There were onry a few within the
inner circle who knew that BUly Dean
was invited to society dinners, etc.,
that his wit might liven the party.
He called himself a vagabond enter
tainer, and the checks he earned dis
playing his talent were both lara-e and
acceptable. Those not within that In
ner circle considered Billy Dean to be
one of them a man of social stand
ing.
Thus, he looked upon Clair Ray
mer with eyes that dared scarcely to
feast themselves upon so forbidden a
piece of luxury as feminine toveli-
"If she were only a begarar maid."
sighed Billy, "how happily I could
love ner. , ,, (,,,
A few moments later he' wan Intro
duced to Miss Raymer. The warm
touch of her hand augmented the al
ready rapid movement of Billy's
bloody -
HfeV eyes were vpk-ptv nnd
softly Into his own.
'I enjoyed your stories lmm,nuiv
Mr. Dean," she complimented him in
that rich voice of hers.
-My buffoonery! It is a sacri! to
mention my efforts when this room in
even now pulsating with the beauty of
' j very soul wept when
you sang." Billy smiled upon Clair
Raymer in his half serious, half ban
tering manner.
' And your words Drodnrad hit,4,.
ter in my soul," she returned quickly.
Billy watched a wistful, fugitive smile
play in her eyes." "We must have both
laughter and tears in our souls if we
would be comnlcMv ho
added. . "
After a moment of more or leas
serious discussion, in which Clair knew
tttat she had found one whom she
liked, Billy extended his hand.
"We must also hav mtir
partings and I am in a most dread-
'"' nrry. - mis voice laughed while
his eyes remained wistful.
Their hands met In mutual pressure
and Billy went swiftly away. He was
wise enough to realize that to flee
from temptation was the safest way
to save further damage being done his
l. .temptation in tnis case would
not pursue him.
Billy would have opened wide his
arms to love had he been other than a
vagabond at heart, but he lived with
only one object in mind and that was
his caravan. He worked during the
winter months, but when spring
umuiea ner iragrance over the hill
side and through the vallv nuiv .iin.
ped off in his small caravan, nor was
ne neara irom until the cold drove
mm oack to his "buffoonery," as he
himself called his talent for amusing
society.
"What would I do with a Jewel a
luxury loving, adorable woman such
as Clair Raymer?" he questioned him
self Ironically. "All I could give her
would be love and three meals a rin v
cooked on a camp fire and reeking of
Try as he might to avoid meeting
the girl he failed dismally. Tango
teaa, dinner dances, debutante recep
tions all combined to frustrate Billy's
aesire to Keep out or harm's way. He
and Clair were flung into the same as
semblages day after day and week
after week. The Intangible sense of
attraction made them gravitate to
ward one another. If at times Billy
noticed a peculiar wist fulness In
Clair's eyes it did not occur to him
that it was occasioned by his Indiffer
ence to ner.
The night upon which he had
watched her drive away from the De
Cortabers mansion in a great luxurious
limousine all hope had been stifled in
nls breast.
"Her gray uniformed chauffeur prob
ably has more money in the bank than
I will ever have," he sighed, as she
stepped into the perfectly appointed car
of the De Cortabers. - -
It was toward the end of the season
that Billy met- Clair on the street.
Never before had he seen her In other
than wonderful toilets. Now her suit
was simple, and even to Billy's mascu
line eyes it seemed well worn. Billy's
heart rejoiced. For once before leav
ing for his vagabond summer he was
to have Clair alone beside him.
A heavy, persistent snow had fallen
and those who toiled through the eider
down snow that covered the city streets
became weary of the effort.
Clair had become weary and - was
stepping up for a cup of tea when Billy
saw ner. The stairs leading to the
cntmney corner were slippery ana
Billy put his arm very quickly and
firmly within Clair's, -
"Oh! ..It's your she gasped and
even the obtuse Billy recognised the
gladness in her voice. "How delight
ful!" ,
"That's what I say!" laughed Billy.
He piloted her safely up and to a seat
beside the great fireplace -. with- its
shining brasses. .
- There was a : rich color mantling
Clair's cheeks and her eyes were glow
ing. r "Have you tasted the home made
cake here?" asked Billy. - "Tes then,
of course you want some.". He smiled
at her and ordered Ceylon tea and cake
from the neat little maid.
For a second he ant looking at
Clair, marveling that he. vagabond en
tertainer, was mm at a. UtOs table
alone with her. Never before bad a
tea room on East Thirty-third street
reflected so great a Joy.
The Jewel has wandered from its
setting." he said finally.
'I am no more a Jewel than are
you." she told him frankly. Her eras
made no attempt to conceal the happi
ness sne lerc -
"Are you trvlna- to make my soul
laugh?" he inquired quixsically. "Be
cause if you are it will be difficulty
today." "Why today in particular?" Her
eyes, softly luminous, rested content
edly on Billy's face, ' '
"This is the first time I have had
you away from - your million-dollar
setting. The change is so wonaerxui
that It makes me sad to think, that If
it were not for your real setting I
could tell you how glorious life could
be if you were a beggar maid and a
vagaDond poet."
Clair laughed softly.
"But am a basrs-ar maid." aha said
and laughed the more at the aston
ishment in Billy's eves. "My horns Is
a hallroom, for which my landlady ex
tracts eight hard-earned dollars from
me every week. I am in society mere
ly because my ' voice charms bored
guests and I am paid for every note
I sing."
The Incredulity " in Billy's eyea
brought a ripple of lauehter from
Clair's lips. "My limousines, my gowns
etc., are an borrowed plumes, and I
am In reality a beggar maid, with no
desire save to wear gypsy costumes
and caravan through wooded dells and
sweet smelling lanes. There, Vaga
bond Poet, my secret la out!" .
"Mine soon will be!" cried Billy still
a trifle unbelievelng. A deep, expect
ant love was glowing in his eyes. He
laughed so joyously that the little
maids in . the Chimney Corner ex
changed glances. "And I pictured you
breakfasting on canary's eyebrows and
having a French maid for your poodle
dog."
"Tou thought me so foolish then?"
Queried Clair with eyes that were vel
vety and looked straight into Billy's
own.
"There is only one thins I hope you
are foolish about, and that is in loving
me. Clair," he said swiftly, "I could
not live without you now that I know
the real you. . . My caravan is waiting
and the spring is near you will come
dear?"
"I am bound to go wherever the
vagabond king wills." she said; "he
makes my soul happy." (Copyrighted
1914, by the Mcciure Newspaper syn
dicate.) Evening Chat
BT RUTH CAMERON.
The Greater Reward.
Because she failed to get a prize in
a competition in which she engaged, a
friend of mine is deeply disappointed
and disheartened. "What I mind the
most." ehe says, "is to think of all
the work I out Into it going to waste.'
Nnw mv friend's disappointment is
natural and I sympathize with her sln
cerelty, but there's one thing In which
I don't agree with-her. - I don't think
shn has a riaht to say that all the
work she has put Into it has been was
ted. No honest, sincere effort is ever lost.
The research, the study, the analysis
and the struaTKle to create did not. to
be sure, bring her the prise she craved.
but it must have added to ner store on
knowledge and to her capacity, for good
work.
The more a man has done, the more
he can do. Whatever other reward may
be withheld, no one can withhold that
reward.. No one can take away that
gain.
Even failures are worth while. Man
is no less the product of his failures
than of his successes. A failure is like
an enemy, it strikes at a weak point
and shows us what to guard against
next time.
When Charlotte Bronte was a young
woman she and her two younger sis
ters planned to start a school for girls.
They wrote to all their friends. They
arranged the curriculum. They had fold
ers announcing the rates, etc., printed,
and they made arrangements for hav
ing their home enlarged and repaired.
Unfortunately or perhaps fortunately,
since with a crowded school to eat up
its author's time, Jane Eyre might never
have been written, the Bronte sisters
could not get a single pupil. Two pu
pils they might have had had just been
sent elsewhere; many who approved of
the teachers objected to the location;
in short, disappointment met them on
every side, and they were finally forced
to give up a plan they had cherished
for years.
It was as bitter a blow as you can
imagine and yet read what Charlotte
Bronte wrote. "We have no present
Intention, however., of breaking our
hearts on the subject, still less of feel
ing mortified at defeat. The effort must
be beneficial whatever the result may
be because it gives us experience and
an additional knowledge of the world."
What wonder that Charlotte Bronte
succeeded in leaving her mark in the
world despite all sorts of handicaps and
difficulties. No man nor woman who,
under the sting of bitter defeat, can
still realize and acknowledge the value
of effort can entirely fail.
They are sure of ultimate success
who use failures only aa stepping stones
to better things.-
No honest, sincere effort is ever lost.
Tour fellowmen may - deny - you pay
ment or recognition, but they cannot
deny you the greater good that comes
from doing. .. . .
QUAKER MEDITATIONS. -
From the Philadelphia Record.)
Even the fool is sometimes self-made.
In a low-cut gown the cut Is seldom In
the price. - - -
Whistling girls and 'crowing hens are
apt to be crude. - -
To the chronic borrower a striking per
sonality, Is essential.
The only man who really believes he Is
fully appreciated is the egotist.
Clothes don't make the man.' but they
sometimes make a monkey of him.
ne grass widow isn't the only person
who should make hay while: the sun
shines.' "
The man who marvels at the success of
his competitors takes his own as a, mat
ter of course. . -;.!
It stands to reason that a man should
be good-natured when he hasn't : any
thing else to do.
A man must make the most of his op
portunities or his opportunities won't
make the most of him. ;
He "Men a re more patient than wom
en." She "Don't you believe it. Just see
how much a woman has to stand m a
crowded street car," -
"Doctor, do you ever give up a patient
when he is very HI?" asked the seeker
after knowledse. : "Not If he Is able to
give up, himself," replied the doctor. ,
Sllllcus "Why do women all talk at
once when they get together T' Cynhms
"Probably because they are afraid some
one may overhear what they are saying."
"What's your objection to srlkes?" ask
ed . Mr. Rafferty. "Well," replied Mr.
Dobs, "the way I feel about strikes Is
that If you're rich enough to be able to
afford them you don't feel Oka taking
tha troubee." Washington Star.
TT
ICansci Comment
PANNING THE ARMY;
Harper's Weekly has taken on it
self the task of kicking military meth
ods around, and intimates among
Other things, that drunken officers are
protected by their brother officers,
while an enlisted man who faces a
court martial has small chance of es
caping punishment. It is further sat
forth that this punishment is usually
too severe to fit the offense. The. offi
cers are also blamed because men de
sert in large numbers, and- there la
some truth in the charge. . The idea
uiai a commission makes a man a god
and enlistment makes him a dog is
ancient stuff, and incompatible with
present Hues of thought. And there
are. officers who still take that view of
the situation, and act accordingly.
However, there are two aides to every ,
question, and the fact remains that an
en list ea man who behaves himself
usually fares as well aa could be ex
pected; better than In anv oth. armv
in the world. And those who know
anything about military matters know
a sterner discipline is required in the
army than In civil Ufa, which explains
a part of its apparent harshness.
Atchison Globe.
UNCLEAN SPEECH A CRIME. '
Afflv 4111 sa wamoawa
fc-ets himself as to -Indulge in ribald
lAJIAtlASTA. 11 IK. n am ft.ll.I
is a thorn in the flesh of decent so-
vieiy. 10 inauige in the use of ob
scene language at any time Is so un
called for 4s not the mark of real
manhood and should by all means bo
uikvuiih, n is next to an im
possibility theait dan tn un
who do not acquire a knowledge ear-
,j in me vi mucn mat is base, abso
lutely vile, and you are Justified In
concluding that in the homes too
little Is Add about clean speech. When
parents Indulge in low down, con
temptible language in the presence of,
their . children. m. th.t i.-i..
children, or both, and some are ao tn-
uhwcw aa io ao tnis, some punish
ment ShOllk. tlA xFAa.KIr.w-l-.-.
viuiVVUlllg Lilt, I
would teach them a wholesome lesson.
iieupie may, in tne course of
time, get a portion of the punishment
they ought to have, but their sloven
ly, damnable practice of loose speech
may sow seeds of corruption in the
minds and hearts of both boys and ,
girls that may eventually be the
cause of their downfall. This ahould
not oniy be a country of free speech
but clean speech. Downs Times.
POVERTY OP THE EDUCATED.
A new poverty is springing up In the
United States a poverty of the educated
classes. we have been and still are es
peoiallyy proud of the educational oppor
tunities which this country affords to its
humblest citizens. Many of our universi
ties are filled with poor men's sons.
Lgends have been woven about the boys
who ' worked their way through college"
tending furnaces and waiting on table.
It I thMA hflV, -knn . IJ..I! . -
grit and perseverance we hold up as an
e55mple to tn young, that are now -adding
a new problem to our already over
burdened social scheme. These men form
what might be termed the "intellectual
proletariat" of the country. According
to an ..eastern, investigator there are la
ISew Tork city alone about 1.400 college- '
bred men who are tramps and criminals.
ui rnacnon was round the
other day sweeping the streets of the me
tropolis. Among the unfortunate charac
ters to whom Helen Gould gave a dinner
a short time before she was married
there were 200 men, it Is asserted, who
possessed a higher education. A young
man of 23, who had been graduated from
one of the leading universities of the
country with honors, but having no taste
for teaching, came to Chicago recently
hoping to work Into some line of business.
He had every requisite that a promising
applicant for a job In a business estab
lishment should have. But he had no
experience, and for weeks he could find
no work. He was reduced to his last dollar
and appealed to one of the largest con
cerns In the city for "any kind of a job"
to hold body and soul together. He want-
f1 tn start n . .ft, h . . i -i .
i - w.twu,, .id iuiu n
employment agent of the concern. He
muuiu ius uiuy a or fi a week. The
employment agent took pity on the boy
and was about to give him a job for 9
a week in the skipping room, but changed
to give him the job of aslsstant to the
applicant that it would be poor policy to
give him such a job, because of the fact
that he, the applicant, had a college ed
ucation. It would not do. he explained,
to give him the job of asistant to the
shipping man for this reason. He would
make good too quickly and would have
to be advanced In a short time or else'
he would leave. It Is a poignant criticism
of our unbridled Individualism in business.
We have been talking much of late about
efficiency. But is It not individual effi
ciency only that we have In mind, effi
ciency which will save the employer so
and so much? Is It time we turned at
tention toward Improvement in the lot
of the man in the white collar no less
than the man in overalls. The new pov
erty, the poverty of the educated classes.
Is not a mere dream. It Is pressing on
ward in the United States at a much
faster pace than most of us suspect.
Chicago Tribune.
DIME'S WORTH OF FARM.
Land. is cheap. For easy figuring let
us say it is worth $160 an acre. - A
square rod, then. Is worth only 11. and
10 cents worth will be a little more
than 27 square feet, or a little farm
slightly more than 5 feet on a side. How
Often a boy will waste a dime and
think nothing of it. For a dime he can
buy land enough to hold a flower Ued.
four hills of clover or a peach tree!
The boy who can save a dime can be
come rich. Make, a dime look like a
tiny farm. The boy who learns to save
a dime and to know values will some .
day come into his own. Breeders Ga
zette. "That's the young man at ' the table ,
over there. He's going to inherit ten mil-
lions." "I see two young men dressed
precisely alike- Which is It?" Qood '
gracious! Why, the one sitting down, of
course. The other is the waiter." "In
deed! So that's the heir, eh? I was In
hopes he was the waiter." Cleveland
Plain Dealer. v
Little Pitchers "Why, you ain't afraid
of mice, are you. Miss Gabby?" Nervous
Caller "Of course, I'm afraid of mice.
Why shouldn't I be?" Little Pitchers "I
was watching to see you ketch the mouse.'
I let out or the trap that seared you.
Mamma says youjre such an old cat."
Baltimore American.
Patient "Tou are worried about my
case, doctor: I can see it ip your face."
Doctor "No o, not exactly." Patient
leu mm - mv i, uui, gwiur. a want
to know Just what you think.' Doctor
"Weil, to be quite candid with you, I was
worrying about your MIL Tou haven't
paid me a cent In two years." Puck. . '
'What's phonetic,- pa? "Why It's all
about , how to use , 'phones, my son, of
jur seas, snows
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