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nal Duiiaing over wires tor wua
Running true to form, the D. A. R.
began its annual convention with a
quarrel.
It is just as well that the peace talk
has not put a damper on the prepara
tions for war. Its avoidance seems
impossible.
Whoever put the "fun" in Funston
made a mistake. The most difficult
kind of military business Is always
his portion.
Almost every one is undoubtedly
hoping; that the present breaking; of
heat records Is not a forerunner of
what will happen later on.
Somebody is sure to suggest before
long that it will be decidedly un.
patriotic for loyal Americans to eat
chill and hot tamales for the time be
ing. Regardless of its expense and hf t
rors, war seems to be popular with all
peoples. The citizens of France have
just voted to- accept a bigger army
burden.
If Villa and Carranza agree to dis
agree, the situation in Mexico will be
complicated further. And it is likely
that old man Carranza will get much
the worst of the bargain.
As the Chicago Record-Herald says:
People who claim that the annexation
of Mexico would make that country
peaceful may not have been reading
the recent news from Colorado.
Nor is it at all-likejy that the for
eigners who are getting out of Mexico
will ever recover much of the half
bl'lion dollars worth of property they
are being forced to leave behind.
The proposition to tax bachelors and
give the money to the spinsters en
counters unexpected opposition, says
the Buffalo Enquirer. , Married men
think they should receive the pro
ceeds'. President Wilson should follow his
appeal to John D. Rockefeller to end
the terrible troubles in Colorado,
which was ignored, with action that
will make the oil maggot respect the
demands of humanity.
American sympathizers with Huerta
properly belong in the City of Mexico
where their criticism of the conduct
of the United States and their expres
sions of admiration for the dictator
will fall on willing ears.
Huerta's Bupply of champagne must
be running low. He became so fright
ened the other day at the possibility
of being assassinated that he sought a
hiding place and safety in one of the
foreign legations in the City of Mexico.
None of the generals figuring so ex
tensively in the news of the day is
of as much interest and concern to
Kansas as General Rain who was kind
enough to wage a campaign through
out the state the other night. Come
again, Gen.
And the attitude of John D. Rocke
feller, jr., towards the unpardonable
condition of affairs that prevails in
Colorado does not jibe very well with
the professed Christianity he has been
parading before a certain Bible class
these many years.
Chicago statisticians have figured it
out - that the people of that city pay
S51.000.000 too much a year for their
food. And they would lop this excess
off the profits of the middlemen and
the retailers. But between this sug
gestion and Its accomplishment there
is likely to be an extended hiatus.
Those who are expecting any ma
terial ( reduction in the cost of living.
and especially insofar as the price of
food products is concerned, are re
spectfully referred to the recent esti
mates of the census bureau which show
that the population of the United
States proper has increased by 7,000,
000 during the past four years.
Including the major Indian cam
paigns, the people of this country
- have engaged in 14 wars during the
140 years that have passed since the
beginning of the Revolutionary war.
This does not include the present fuss
.with Mexico, and it is at the rate of
a war for every ten years of the na
tion's existence. Which, it would
seem, is doing' fairly well for a people
who profess to be peaceably inclined,
and who are wont to point with pride
o their accomplishments in the realm
of civilization.
MUSIC.
An important and instructive contri
bution on the side of the educational
worth of music comprises the current
istut of the State Normal Record, the
valuable publication issued by the
state normal college at Em
poria. It is appropriately called
the "music number" and is a
brochure of 24 pages, devoted entirely
to discussions of a variety of the many
phases of this large subject. Among;
them is a forceful editorial on the
educational value of music, as follows:
A kinetic principle gives to music its
value and individuality. Where his
tory, mathematics, even the sciences,
concern themselves for the most part
with an intellectual status quo, music
is an expressive effort. A necessity
for action or practice, "technical exe
cution," pertains to music, which is not
in other studies. The pupil's musical
knowledge is indeed little more than
the nervous and mental memorial of
what he has musically done.
The "action of learning'' is of the
greatest educational importance. The
step, often too difficult, between learn
ing and its expression in motion is
here done away with. Learning, in the
arts, is itself expressive. There is not
in music the usual bulkhead between
reception and motivity. There is and,
for musical success, must be a close
couple between the thing known and
the thing done. . To maintain itself at
all it must attain that educational ideal,
the marriage of knowledge and action.
Music is primarily different in im
pulse. Its acquirement is truly, though
paradoxically, little else than the sum
of what one has musically given out.
All studies do not require expression.
Music, on the other hand, helps to sus
tain the thesis that true learning is an
equilibrium between reception and ex
pression. -
BOYS AND GIRLS ON THE FARM.
In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside, the national farm paper pub
lished at Springfield, Ohio, Herbert
Quick, the editor, writes a most inter
esting editorial on the advantages of
having practical education in rural
schools. Following is an extract from
his editorial:
"If our boys and girls are given the
right sort of education at home they
will not desert us and go to the city.
They will .stay on the farm if they are
so educated as to feel that on the farm
they may become successful.
"In an Iowa county the rural pupils
were examined as to what they wanted
to do with their lives. Most of the
boys, and almost alt of the girls, an
swered that they meant to leave the
farm when they grew up.
"Two years afterward the boys and
girls in the same schools were asked
the same question. Most of the girls
and almost all of the boys, answered
that they meant to stay on the farm.
"What had made the change? Just
this: the teachers had been given more
practical work to do in the. schools.
They had been giving the teaching a
farm slant. They had been working in
the schools on farm matters, and the
girls had been studying cooking, sew
ing, housekeeping, and the care of the
house and children. And they had for
gotten about leaving the farm. They
had been doing pleasant, interesting,
practical work, and they were happy.
They had come to see that there is
just as fascinating work. Just as in
tellectual work. Just as big work in the
country as any of them could expect to
get in the city and much higher work
that most of them could expect. I
think few farmers in that county would
begrudge high wages to teachers doing
that sort of work."
CHEWING GUM FROM MEXICO.
How many people in the United
States chew gum?. No accurate gov
ernmental statistics being available, a
conservative estimate may place the
number at 10,000,000, dividing them
into two classes, the inveterate or hab
itual chewers and the occasional
chewers. Under the latter class may
be placed school children, who are
not permitted to chew gum during
study hours.
According to the census - of 1910
there were in the United States 27,750,.
599 persons between the ages of 8 and
20 years in the 48 states and the Dis
trict of Columbia. Of this number
17,300,204 attended, school, at least
Occasionally, and may be classed as
potentially occasional chewers, leaving
a balance of 10,450,395 as potentially
inveterate chewers of gum, all under
the age of 20 years. Of course, all of
these may not have been gum chew
ers; equally of course, inveterate gum
chewers can not be confined to per
sons under the age of 20. These fig
ures may be taken, however, to show
that the estimate of 10,000,000 invet
erate chewers is very conservative.
The latest statistics published by the
Department of Commerce show that
during the calendar year 1913 the
United States imported 13.401,315
pounds of chicle, valued at 35.119.500.
Now the word "chicle" to most people
in this country might be Greek, but
it isn't. According . to the pamphlet
on Mexico recently issued by the Pan
American Union at Washington. D. C,
the word "chicle" is of Aztec origin.
and is the name given to the sap or
the sapote tree, botanically known as
the sapota sapotllla. It la this sap
which is the basis of practically all
the chewing gum used in tht United
States..
The Aztecs of Mexico are said . to
have been the first gum-chewers
known on this, or for that matter any
other, continent. The followers of
Cortes reported that the Indians chew
ed a gum to quench thirst and relieve
exhaustion. They obtained it from
the sapote tree by tapping, and today
the manner of gathering the sap is in
close analogy to the process of gath
ering maple sugar in New England.
The tree is indigenous to the northern
countries of South American. Central
America, and especially in Mexico, the
last named furnishing about six -sevenths
of the entire supply consumed
annually in the United States.
It is estimated that 300,000,000
packages of gum are sold annually in
the UnKed States, each containing on
an average S piecea Thee placed
end to end would extend a distance
of 71.025 miles, or nearly 2 times
around .the world. If in their elastic
state they were stretched Into a thread
one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter.
this thread of gum would extend a
distance of 497.875 miles, or from the
earth to the moon, wrap three times
around that satellite, and back to
Mother Earth again. - If the physical
energy used in chewing this amount
of gum could be reduced to foot
pounds and mechanically applied, it
would furnish a power' beside which
that of Niagara Falls would dwindle
into insignificance.
Journal Entries
The best equipment for a trouble
hunt is a mean disposition.
www
In every family -tree of any propor
tions there are one or, more monkeys.
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Some of the music is so vigorous and
noisy it must have been written for
deaf people. .
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Too many people have one set of
rules for the conduct of others and an
other set for themselves.
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It is just as well to leave the word
obey" out of the marriage rite. It sel
dom was respected.
J ay hawker Jots
There certainly ought to be some
way of disciplining stone-throwing
autos. suggests the Erie Sentinel, If
they refuse to give up the habit, they
should be sent to a garage of correc
tion.
The Hamilton County Republican Is
strong for doubling the income tax
as a means of providing a war rev
enue. It argues: If the common peo
ple furnish the soldiers, let the Na
bobs put up the coin.
One business woman in town, ac
cording to the Eldorado Republican.
says she is evidently not cut out for a
first class business career, as she finds
herself out picking violets in the back
yard when she should be down town
hustling for bones.
Spring surely has reached Coolidge.
The Syracuse Journal's correspondent
there reports: We heard the first frog
Tuesday, April 14, and heard and
saw a mocking bird Thursday and the
turtle doves are here and some of
the alfalfa is six inches high.
An Atchison minister suggests that
the following quotation should be
hung, not only in every home, but also
in a conspicuous place ' in offices:
'The second most deadly instrument
of destruction Is the dynamite gun
the first is the human tongue.
News from Sand Creek, in the
Meade Globe: One good housewife of
this community has over three hun
dred Buff Orpington baby chicks, and
they were not hatched by the wooden
hen either, but in the old-fashioned
way of mother's. They make a beau
tiful sight, one that will challenge
the attention of a Methodist preacher.
Related by .the McPherson Free
man: A story is told on a young mar
ried man who attended the Democrat
banquet Saturday evening. He is a
Democrat, while his wife is a Re
publican. He was very enthusiastic
in his praises of Gov. Hodges, while
his wife was indifferent. He plied her
with questions as to why she was a
Republican, and having been recently
enfranchised she was not able to give
mm wnat he considered a satisfactory
answer. He studied over the matter
and early Sunday morning called up
nis xatner-in-iaw over the phone and
asked him if he would not please tell
nis wire wny sne was a Republi
can, explaining that she did not know.
and if there were no good reasons for
her being a Republican he wanted
her to be a Democrat so the house
need not be divided against itself.
Globe Sights
BT THE ATCHISON GLOBE.
The world is full of dandelions and
crises.
There Is a lot of weak flesh in the land
Just now.
Another way to avoid paying alimony
is to stay single.
When a doctor doesn't know what It is
he says it is a growth.
A man who sayes " ..y, certainly,"
isn't very satisfactory either.
In spite of recent frosts, indications
point toward a good crop of colonels.
Campaigning consists of shaking hands
and trying to say something clever.
A tail-end club'' occasionally wallops the
league leaders, but that is no way to bet.
The rule Is that the man the women
are crazy about isn't very popular with
the men folks.
As every man Is a good shadow boxer,
so is every man a good soldier In the
time of peace.
Dogged determination is like an abiding
faith; you are apt to forget you have
such a thing.
An empty tonneau of a touring car
looms up as the largest vacancy to the
plodding pedestrian.
Many men who are willing to take a
chance are unwilling to accept the cer
tainty of a steady job.
ne fact that many girls are crazy
over uniforms may also serve to explain
part of the patriotism.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It isn't every man who can reap his re
ward without cutting his fingers.
A man should be known by his deeds,
not by the deeds of his ancestors.
Love grows cold, and, line most other
things, it Is never as good warmed over.
If some people can't make a stir In the
world' in any other way they stir up
trouble.
Baseball umpires shouldn't be married.
The married ones are more apt to stand
for back talk.
The successful photographer is the one
who can make a woman look like she
thinks she looks.
Wlgg "He has a very pronounced
note." Wags "Not only pronounced, but
actually spoken through."
Muggins That's a pretty rusty-looking
suit you have on." Buggins "Sure; 'the
man told me It would wear like Iron."
TOobba "That fellow Blones la too
smart for his own good." Slobbs Yes. be
loses a lot of time showing other people
how smart he is."
Hoax "This car is awfully cold." Joax
"Tea. I spoke to the conductor about
If Hoax "What did he say?" Joax
"Said be was a non-conductor of heat."
Bllllcua "I suppose It's quite an ordeal
for a man to get married." Cynlcua
"You bet it Is. No man can get married
without feeling that be is losing control
of himself."
Pol.y Plnktights "I wonder- why she
failed In musical comedy. 8he has a
beautiful soprano voice." Tot tie Twinkle
toes "Maybe the poor girl can't kick as
uign as sne can
BT HAHTET PAMONat
It has been suggested that, from the
amount of boose Mr. Huerta consumes
daily, he must 'have a private dis
tillery. And it might be added that
from the number of assorted medals
he wears when he has - his picture
taken, one might be justified In the
suspicion that he also operates ' a
private brass foundry.
O 'Bhaughrtessy is safe on first, but is
not credited by the official scorer with
a hit. Whether he walked on four
high balls or was hit by a pitcher,
deponent sayeth not
It Is hereby moved that Dodd Gas
ton be drafted on the reception com
mittee to meet Mrs. John A. Logan.
: The burglar' who burgled a meat
market Monday night but did not
elope with any of the stock, has not
been apprehended, but the police
may save time by not suspecting a
married man on the job. Any head
of a household would not pass up a
chance to cop a porterhouse, which
experience has taught him is more
precious than . rubies.
And by the same token, a married
burglar would nail a string of sis
sages in preference to a string of
beads, any time..;
Mexico, as pointed out by a local
warrior, is the land of bull fights,
but the Mexican does his bull fight
ing with a sword, while the war cor
respondents seem to be violating the
rules of the game by "shooting the
bull" with startling regularity.
Jack Supp says Wilson's assurance
that there is no war and isn't going
to be any, regardless of the howls
of Huerta, remind him of the favorite
pastime of school kids. A big kid
tries to lift a little kid by the ear, and
in answer to yelps of anguish, says:
"Aw. whatya hollerin' about? I
aint a hurtin yuh I'm Jesta playin'."
Howboutlt, Doc? Does swatting
one of the . big green ones make a
higher score than swatting one of the
common, or garbage can flies?
John Marshall has opened his cam
paign for Justice of the supreme
court, so his old friend Myra Mc
Henry may come on and take the
stump for him when ever she la
ready. "
Topeka is rather quiet; the parks
have not opened and the ball team
is gone, but if you are suffering for
amusement . you might . attend the
dental clinic at the auditorium.
One might gather, from the creed
of Bill White, that Noah took but one
animal of any importance into the
ark.
On the Spur
of the Moment
BT ROT, K. MOULTON.
The Burglar.1 ",
It was near midnight's holy, hour.
In vain we courted sleep;
The shadders was e-daircing'T6und
'And made our nerve all creeps
When suddenly we heard a sound,
A soft step on the stair; ,
We gazed Into the hall, and le,
A burglar bold was there.
lie acted perfectly at home.
And never noticed us;
He went about his business
Without the sltghest fuss.
He must have known he was observed.
Of that we could have vowed.
For when he took some of our stuff
We chuckled right out loud.
When ma-ln-Iaw's false teeth he took
We smiled chuck full of glee, '
This burglar was a kind gazabe,
A jolly rogue was he.
And when he took Bill's phonograph
And dropped it in his sack.
We laughed so loud we could be heard
To Timbuctoo and back.
He carried off our coo-coo clock.
And It ne'er more will tell
Of our arrival nightly and
Sound our domestic knell.
And when he took our wife's pink hat.
We hate from tip to brim, .
We felt like getting out of bed
And shaking hands with him.
We took our parrot and we yelled
Aloud in fiendish mirth.
And then got up and helped him pack.
For all that we were worth.
We handed him a good cigar -
And made Mm promise that
Whenever he came 'round this way
He'd burglarize our flat.
Uncle Abner.
It seems to me the feller who designs
the men's overcoats naa oetter stay
anlwr.
They say that matches are made in
havn. hut - most of 'em smel
though they were made in the other
nlnne.
It ain't very hard to make a gal happy
nowadays. All you have got to have Is
a lot of money and the rest la easy.
Uncle Ezra Harklns has a bumper crop
of whiskers this soring; and Is negotiating
with a mattress concern which will take
his entire winter s output.
Miss Lutie Bibbins, who has been tak
ing vocal lessons nineteen years, still has
hopes of landing in grand opry, but It
won't be so grand as It Is now if she
does.
All men are born free and ekel, but
some of 'em marry women with money.
Signs of the Tbrn
Mexico apparently will never have to4
advertise in the "Situation . Wanted'
column.
Those Texa) strawberries would be.
more appetizing if they were red instead
Memphis claims to be the lara-esr drv
city in the world. Well, it is at least the
dry est large city. .
President Wilson never loses his tem
per, and, as a consequence, he never
loses anything else.
Although its liquor is gone. Tennessee
still indulges in tanglefoot politics.
Harvard processor declares that the
bald head is hereditary. Sure. . Nearly
every baby has a bald bead.
Chicago Chinaman lert mmmb in his will
to Joe Choynski, and Joe wasn't a Chinese
boxer, either.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
Little white lies live long and prosper.
Perhaps poets may be born, but limn
are self-made.
Trusts ar , like babies they go after
everything in sight. (
If things fall to come your way, why
not go after them?
Graft era get into office when honest
men fall to do their duty.
A man's good' opinion of himself isn't
going to fool St. Peter. ,
If you want anything advertised with
out coat, tell it to a gossip.
Viie things we do not possess are what
makes life worth living.
Bat It Is Impossible to patch up a repu
tation so that the patches won't show.
The young man in the parlor scene may
lose sight of the girl's mother, but It
doesn't follow that she has lost sight of
him If there's a convenient keyhole.
HfCKJfliRJIK. :
Pale' drifting pools of sliver mist
, lie on the dank and sullen land,
i While Jack-o'-lanterna. hud in
With fleeting shadows, tarn and twist.
Here, from the gauze-hung silent wood.
Flits the shy bat on crooked wings: -And
some late-roving sedge , bird sings
toe marshland soutuae.
Beyond the pallid drifting mist
auses tne uttle Gothic town
Its lamns seam firefUea on a gown
Of ever-deennlna aimthvaL
Percy Haseldea, In the Poetry ltevafw.
7
The Eoening Story
Eric's
' (By Louise Alice Knox.)
"Ma." said Cyrilla softly. ' ,
She startled her mother out
of
lamplight nap.
"Ma, I think I'm going to get mar
ried!" :- -
"Get married!" The white-haired
woman sat up sharply.
Tea 1 think so. ma. He aurt asaea
me yet, but he must be going to; what
else does be call for. night after night?"
The older woman, now miles rrom
sleeo. out on her spectacles and stared
skeptically at her 30-year-old daugh
ter.
"Remember Cyrus Haines," she warn
ed, shaking her head. "Men don't al
ways mean what they seem to mean.
Don't met your heart on it too mucn.
Cyrilla!"
"Pshaw! But this man ain't Cyrus;
Eric Trenton's got some push. Didn't
he ask me to play the piano to him
the second time he came? ' Didn't he
say. T know vour piano s old. but z
don't care; I want to bear you play?
"Tea, but ain't he a piano agent?"
Cyrilla started. For an Instant her
hand rested on her thumping heart.
Her eyes stared sightlessly before her.
She threw back her head and laugh
ed gayly. The idea was absurd! It
he had been working up to a stroke of
business, he'd have shown his face long
ago. He was on his vacation now; he
was Just a summer boarder. Indulging
in social pleasures like other summer
boarders.
"Nonsense!" she broke out proudly,
walking toward the door., "He's com
ing after me. not after my money. I
guess I ought to know. Ain't he eat
night after night telling me how hard
he has' to work to make money, fairly
putting out his hands for sympathy?"
Receiving no answer save a skepti
cal nod, she flung herself through the
door and up the stairs to her room
"He's after me! I know it!" she in
sisted to herself over and over. "And
tomorrow I'm going to the city to doll
myself up yea air, if I spend every
cent of my income!"
She went. Behind her. she left
decidedly dazed old lady whose head
was swimming with Instructions.
Tyrflla? Oh, she's Just run Into
town,' the mother was to say to the
young man when he called that night.
"Oh, yes. She's got to go every once
in so often; girls must nave the styles.
you know. Cyrilla makes almost all
her own clothes.
This carelessly tossed off speech
would kill several birds at once.
All the way cityward Cyrilla studied
the women about her. Across the
aisle, on the train, sat a woman who
gave her the idea of having her nails
manicured. On the street car, in New
York,' she saw a girl whose coiffure
she decided to copy.'
. "Suit, hat. slippers, dresses, neck.
lace." A hundred other items were
down on the list.
It was a day of days. She fairly
reeled through it in happiness. She
spent recklessly, prodigally. Then, at
5 o'clock, ail her shopping accomplish
ed, she took a Fifth avenue 'bus and
rolled up to Central park. Her train
did not aro till 7.
Dreamily, she got down from the
'bus and wandered through the parg
entrance. . She sank down on a bench
and watched the procession of home'
going nurses and children. Her eyes
devoured the white-stockinged kiddies
and bright-eyed infants. One little tot
stopped at her knee and looked up
into her face with deep, mischievous
dimples. She had an impulse to eaten
it to her to smother it in kisses. All
her life she had loved these Uttle
In happiness she rose at last and
took a downtown 'bus. She was eager
n nt hom. She knew that when she
opened the front door she would hear
voices in the parlor. She knew that
he would be there waiting for her. It
seemed an eternity berore tne train
started. '"...
But at last she was getting down
from the train at her home station. So
sm ah a to flv to her home that
she barely saw the lank form of Cyrus
lolling on the station yuiuuna kv
"Good evening," he drawled, as she
passed him. '
She turned hastily. "Oh. good eve
ning!" she sang out gayly and hurried
on. .
She would have laughed could she
an him take a few dazed steps
after her, then stand staring blankly
at her new suit and stylish hat. She
had worn the new things, putting her
old ones In the suit case sne cameo.
at.. vanui n be at her best when
the great moment came. Something
told her that It was not far off
Indeed, that it would come this very
nignt! .
ah. w anrnrised. therefore, when
as she got within sight of her house
she saw no light in tne parwr
.. m in the sitting room.
she noted swiftly. "Maybe bed rather
be In there like home folks.
sQtafr arhttti satis onened the front door
and heard no voices coming from the
sitting room, ner neart anna-
"Ma!" she said, almost reproach
fully. , .
Her mother came came slowly and
hesitatingly. Her face was white and
..bi.. trr thin hands clinched ana
V mm- - -
uncUnched themselves in an agony or
Cyrilla fell back against the wall.
She closed her eyes. She knew as well
as If she had been told that he had
come and. gone; that somehow he had
shown that he was not after her.
"Well!" she forced out. "Was It the
piano?" ... . " ',
The old woman flew to her. - sue
threw her arms about her protectingly.
"Oh. Cyrillic! Cyrillle!" she sobbed.
"Oh, my little girt! He left-left town
when he found he couldn't sell us oner
"He's gone!" Cyrilla's voice came
from a pit of hopelessness. She strug
gled free from her mother and groped
toward the stairs.
Then, hearing a little mother-moan,
she hesitated, turned. .Back she went
to- the protecting arms. Perhaps those
arms would rather hold that - which
vmnM make them writhe - than be
empty. She clung to them as she would
nave clung to tne aauraness. wn awi
out to-her as she would have cried oat
to solitude:
"Oh. a little arirl came up to me. ma.
in the park she laughed up at me! She
was at my Knee! on, ma: on, bit
- The oM woman drew her into the
dark of the parlor. -i
"Huahr she whispered ' thickly.
Sew 's lsmdckmg! Oh. my psor
Uttor-e fMS.Jr ...
let, tiissurh the knocking continued,
either eC the two had the slightest
thought of going. Shutting the parlor
door softly, they dropped to the conch,
clinging to each other.
- Then, In horror they sat-nn: some
one was opening the front door was
coming to! The neighbors weald
haver It now! They waited, as though
charmed, as the parlor door slowly
opened.
t was Cyrus.
"I'm oomins in! I've aot a rtarht
to!" ha said aggressively. He strode;
to Cyrilla's side. With tense Jaw he
rooaea a own on ner.
I heard ion o-rinsr from the noreh.
and I know why. I know the whole
story! Tan took a train to New
York on his last day to skip him.
and he took the hint and got out as
quick as he could, after callin' to sea
yowl; an -now mu'ra sorry!" .Ha
turned and strode up the room and
oaca.
Cyrilla watched him dasedly.
"But you're aot goin' to whistle
him back!" he went on fiercely. "I
know you think you want to. now;
but I'll show you that von don't! Oh.
Cyrilla! Tou loved me once! You
must love me again! Now that the
doctors have -told me I'm all right,
surely you'll step in, too, for my hap
piness. I've thought my life was
over, for -so long. Cyrilla!"
She gasped dazedly. "The doctors?
Tour life over?" It was all Greek to
her.- : -
He came back to her swiftly. Be
took her roughly into his arms. "I
thought . I was too sick," he said
brokenly. "They told me not to
marry. Then. Just as I found out I
was getting better this boarder fellow
came along, and I thought you were
a goner aatB you skipped him on
his last day " he held her very
near mm. . un, uyruia!" ne ended,
"tell see that there's some hope!"
She looked up at him. In her eyes
was just main, everyday, downright
nappine .
"Oh yes!" she whispered vibrantly.
"There's so much, much hope!"
(Copyright 1914 by the McClure
newspaper syndicate.)
Evening Chat
BT RUTH CAMERON.
Worse Than the Dentist.
. To admit that they are wrong tn any
matter, however small, hurts- some
people more than a visit to the den
tlst.
- Such people will make the most
ridiculous statements; they will un
hesitatingly perjure themselves; they
will call their best friends liars; they
will do or say almost anything, how
ever mean and unworthy, rather than
admit they could have been wrong or
mistaken.
And in so doing they overreach
themselves. They defeat their own
ends by their obstinacy in seeking
mem.
For to admit that you are wrong in
some things Is likely to make people
more willing to believe that you are
right In others: whereas never to ad
mit that you are wrong in anything
nas a tendency to make people believe
tnat you are never anything bat wrong.
There is nothing I like better than
to hear anyone say honestly hnd sin
cerely, "I can now see , that I was
wrong." A brave, frank acknowledg
ment -like that inspires confidence.
You know that the man who made it
is trying to understand himself. Tou
know that he is trying to be just and
fair. Tou know that he has-the best
sort of courage, and that he has the
fine progressive spirit that will use
mistakes and failures as a foundation
for better things.
On the other hand the person who
persists In defending , all his acts and
opinions, however palpably wrong, de
stroys your confidence In him.
Tou know that one of two things is
true. He's either too much of a fool
to see that he has been wrong, or too
much of a coward to acknowledge it.
Such a man in trying to defend per
fectly Indefensible acts or statements
weakens his power to defend that
which really has justification. He is
like a general in defensive warfare
who, instead of picking out the posts
on the frontier that were capable of
defense and were of strategic impor
tance, would weaken his cause by ob
stinately trying to hold a host of un
tenable and unimportant positions.
"I was wrong" are very painful
words for anyone to say, but the pain
is of the kind that comes when you
put a healing antiseptic into your
wound; that is, it is short lived and
the forerunner of improvement.
It is good to have the courage of
your convictions; it is even better to
have the greater courage of changed
convictions. "He is a fool who has
never changed his mind," writes a
philosopher. Do not be afraid to ad
mit that you are not a f ooL
Humble pie is rather ugly eating
out it is very nutritious lor tne char
acter. . .
Deeds of Strathcona.
No one section of the British people can
fully appreciate a career which in the
truest sense belonged to the whole em
pire. Lord Strathcona represented the
strength of an old stock brought to its
most perfect fruit tn a new environment.
He was perhaps the greatest of modern
Scotsmen and the .greatest of Canadians.
His powers had the range of widest im
agination and the capacity of minutest
painstaking. . His life wan, on the per
sonal side, a comoination of the greatest
practical qualities with the highest ideal
ism. He possessed to the full the char
acteristic modern genius of finance, but
he valued wealth only as an enhancement
of his ability to serve his fellows. No
on did more by example to solve the
moral Issues of a commercial age. Lord
Strathcona triumphed over many things,
but no victory was more complete than
that which he exhibited over the spirit
of Mammon. His many benefactions, his
patronage of the arts, his enthusiastic
patriotism, and. above all, his life of self
sacrificing public labor, give hla career a
moral significance which) none can over
value or overpraise.
- His deeds tor the empire will be one
of the undying stories of posterity. Suf
ficient Justice has never yet been done to
the marvelous work which, with a steel
baad, riveted the scattered regions of
British North America Into a single and
solid 'dominion. Before the Canadian
Pacific railway was built. Quebec and
British Columbia were, for all practical
purposes, as for aasundar as the poles. To
day the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are
within four days' Journey of each other,
and the erstwhile waste that divided
east from west has blossomed into popu
lous cities and fertile landscapes that are
vital to toe world's subsistence. There
has been no greater pleee of wizardry in
the aanals of civilisation.
Lord Strathcona would nave been the
last to claim an undue share of the glory
of that transformation. He had loyal and
splendid colleagues by his side, and be
hind him he had the exuberant spirit of
a-young and Cearleae nation. Bat those
who helped him would have been the
firjt to say that the key of success lay In
bis brUBant-foresight, m bis Indomitable
character, and tn the furious eueigy and
determination that responded to Ms faith.
All who ever looked upon that good gray
head will realise today that they have
scan one of the heroes of the werWs haa.
tory. PaU. Mall Oasetta " ,
vV ths oLaxsor or war.
We have heard a lot About the glam
or of war had about the excitement
that accompanies the entraining of sol
diers whan they leave -for the front. A
trip to Port Riley yesterday' fk lied to
show any amount .ol this said glamor.
The soldiers were hard at work buck-
ng- oaues or nay ana sacjes ox oaua mm .
freight ears; nalang canaene and sup-
Ply wagons on to flat cars and getting -
teen- equipment In . shape.-- They naa
bean hustling since 3 a. m. aad with
no tutace c relief before -the following
3 a. , Jn. The officers were hast ling -bsuJt
and forth with little apparent sys
tem aild the loss of sleep and added re
sponsibility ted gotten on their ner
vous system. And all around wera
women and children, who looked any
thing but gay and happy; If there was
any atonic in leaving for the front, the
wive and. babies were apparently .
missing it. The men, however, as a
rule, were anxious to go. And after,
they get there, they want to fight- "W
can come mighty near hitting a bull't
eye five miles away with one of these
cannon," said one of them, "and we -are
anxious to get close enough to the
Greasers to excham shots with them.
We are tired of loafing around here
anyway, and welcome the change."
aut there isavt much glamor to it; not -much
glamor. Manhattan Mercury.
TOO BIG FOR SOME. . I
Big minds are necessary to grasp
big ideas. One of the commonest of
errors practiced by us all, is to take 4
for granted that our visions are of f
equal else. We think . we see, when' t
we may see only in part. When Dias f.
was exiled a popular sentiment in the.
United States took for granted that W :
in his place would be substituted a sys
tern of government based on popular -opinion,
and a freedom of action on
the part of the citizenship, somewhat '' -akin
to our own form' of government,
We have been taking for granted that : :
the Mexican people hold In their minds
the same sort of admiration for law -and
order which we ourselves value as
one , of : the first considerations of gov
ernment. Yet incidents are being
multiplied to show that in the minds
of the inhabitants no such value Is .
attached to law aad order. If ..there
were the same grasping for law and
order In Mexican minds as there is in
American minds it would be difficult
for . the disturbers of national peace to
secure their followlngs. We- have,
plenty of disturbers in our own coun
try, the Kalleys, the Coxeys, and the
I. W. w. inaurrectors but their ignor
ance of law and order Ideals Is held .
in - check by the sentiment of over
whelming public opinion. The tinder
they spread falls inert amidst a pre
ponderance of opinion which values first
of all an established rule of law and
order and peaceful behavior. We take
for granted that constitutionalists In -Mexico
cherish law and order as we
do, for we are ourselves constitutional
ists. The duty devolving upon the
United States is to demonstrate to our
unfortunate brother-constitutionalists '
the difference between an Imitation and
the real thing. Wichita Eagle.
M From Other Pens II
i; HEALTH OF THE ARMY. ;
The record of the army medical
corps for the past decade, and par
ticularly for the past five years, has
been - one ' of consistent and rapid
progress one of which the men who
made It may well be proud. Yellow
fever was robbed of its terrors to the
soldier by the investigation carried oa
after the Spanish-American war, and
now typhoid, which has been the
dread guest at so many camps, has
been reduced to a negligible factor In
the army mortality rate. In 1909, tire
year that Inoculation was Introduced
Into the army as a preventive for this
disease, there were 173 cases or ty
phoid, with a death rate of a little
more than one to every 4,000. Dur
ing 1913 there were two cases, with
no deaths. An objection that has been
tUeged against typhoid inoculation,
hich an American soldier must now
undergo once every four years, is that
It Increases the subject's susceptibility -to
tuberculosis. This theory has been '
held by few reputable physicians, and
it is not borne out by figures which
show that during the same five years
in which typhoid has been practically
wiped out of our soldiery the hospital
admission rate for each 1,000 men for
tuberculosis has decreased from 4.39
to 3.49. Among the other Ills to which -the
fighting man is heir, venereal dis
ease, alcoholism, and malarial fever
are the most troublesome. Statistics
on these diseases for 1913 are. not yet
available; but in the period from 1903
to 1912, inclusive, the admission rata
for venereal diseases was reduced
from 165 men out of each 1,090 to
IK, for alcoholism from 30 to 17, and "
for malarial fevers from 24 to 14.
Such figures speak for themselves.
Since typhoid inoculation and other
prophylactic measures have succeeded
In the army, they might well be adopt.
ed generally by the vast private cor
porations whose employees are legion.
The Increased efficiency and the
money saving that would be sure to
result are Incalculable. The Outlook.
WHO SAID "NATURE FAKER?" ,
If - tan ahnnljl . ItaM kJ
1 1 frmrmjMm LV W
wanderlnr nhnnt tha rhjuw, -. , i . .. -m
Colombia It would be well to have an
eye out tor tne soDblng monkey. If
this animal gets on vour trail
mhrht ai wall Hn :
and put a period after yourself. When
it gets aiter tne Colombian Indians,
according to H. G. Spurrell, naturalist
WmA IMMnhM Af Ka T Ut . m
Tropical Medicine, the Indian listens
tu uw khi m swui-witacniig sods for
three days and three nights, and then
commits suicide. Mr. Spurrell, who
that the sobbing monkey is pink, and
un vi mo nival rare animals in
South - America, For reasons that
hava nMrnr Km ima, .1... . w .
blng monkey will, at certain times In
urc f , asif i ia nome in tne most
impenetrable wilderness, and go to that
nfnt tmll.il u...-. r Z- ".? .
" - VHBMUfUC!Utf WWra Iff
will select its victim and follow him
wy aura nignt. Beeping up a continual
weeping and walling. According to
-- - ..-... v.. . mm ah ran aj ,n
that the victim will shortly be taken
with the sleeping-sickness or soma
ouwr nuu oianua. mx naa been cus
tomary for the natives to listen to the
RlABkAVa tohhltl tnm w .
three nighty and then commit suicide,
thus avoiding death by the dreadfii
slckneas. Naer-.Tork MaiL
Pepv-eeAtoM me today that yoer
get a yr. Paul" Pau-"Correet
to a pnny." Pony "Why, yoa ll have to
wr m .mwmw uu. wort you 7 peal
a searried man antll his Income to S4.V
a year. . Save me from bring -"- wnart
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