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An Independent Newspaper.
B7 FRANK P. MAG LENNAN.
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matter at tba poatoltlee at Topeka. Km,
under the act of congress.1
VOLUME XXXI. .
.No. 248
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In America" brand.
Apparently there are no such things
as Impregnable forts.
If swatted flies are worth 15 cents
at quart, how much are batted rats
worth? '
The aeroplane creates the most talk,
but It's she submarine which gets the
most resulta
One thing in favor of an October
circus: the Polar bears seem to enjoy
life more than in July.
In Baltimore they have what they
call "Eutaw" street. Is that a protest
against Brlgham Toung?
England for a long time was satis
fled with being a "tight little Isle."
Now she wishes she had a lid, to boot.
Educational note: Columbia has a
professor who is permitted to boost
the beer business. Drury college
won't even let its Janitors smoke.
It's said John D. Rockefeller takes
hot "water ' In ' preference l t i8ther
drinks. - Poor old chap's been in it so
much he ought to like it by this time.
Dallas, Texas, is swelling around
- with- an order for half a million dol
lars' worth of harness and saddles for
. one of the warring countries in Eu
rope. The wires click the intelligence:
"Prince Oleg shot through- the leg."
Now if he had only been shot through
the "O" it might not have been so
serious.
Next summer Topeka will get all
of its baseball entertainment where
It has always looked for most of its
diversion of that sort from the bul
letin boards.
In Europe the monarchs are dis
tributing decorations with both hands,
but the decorations that will be the
most permanent are the ones the men
In the trenches are passing out.
There are fewer flies on Maine, or
In It. Boy Scouts in a recent swat
contest destroyed 151,221 of the pesky
things, the prize-winner putting more
than SO, 000 of them" out of business.
John Llnd, the president's personal
representative in Mexico, has been
taken to a sanitarium "tired out and
eager to rest," according to the newi
columns. Watchful waiting at close
range evidently is distressing duty.
"Explanations of the ferocity of the
Russian attacks may be found in the ! in the most tragic hour when the best
fact that a Russian colonel receives I balanced consciences lost their assur
only 3397.50 a year. A colonel forced I ance. Had he not been there things
to live on that sum would be likely to I would certainly have gone differently
have an unpleasant disposition," points'
out the Chicago News.
A Rhode Island college president
points out that the automobile exer
cises a demoralising influence on col
leges quite equal to alcohol. Thanks,
we have been needing something fresh
to worry over, here in Kansas, since
automobiles became so numerous.
It will be remembered that the
American colonies obtained their in
dependence at a time when England
-was busy keeping her various irons
from becoming too hot. The Boers
have picked out another such oppor
tunity. '
Hoary - Id Harvard, asked to
make choice between a ten-million-dollar
bequest and one of its profes
sors to whom the prospective bene
factor objects, turns its back on the
money. "Harvard can't be bought for
310.000,000," is the attitude expressed
sit the college office.
Edison is figuring out a submarine
, which will extract oxygen from the
water. That should give the occupant
of the boat a better chance for his
life. The idea is strikingly Edi
soneque for it tuts straight to the
. greatest need. The submarine hi
demonstrated Its terrific efficiency as
-. s destroyer.
. UNFORTUNATE KANSAS! , reckoned among the noblest and most
From dear, dead Denver cornea an'touchlng of humanity; antiquities have
attenuated little messenger named . disappeared which can never be re
The Record." whose object here (s Placed; half a nation, supremely at
to make Kansas discontented withttched to "s old simple customs and
prohibition. For the text of the lead- i hunwe homes, is wandering across the
tag article the entire' publication la fac Europe. Thousands of inno
editorial in character Its writer takes centa hve been massacred; nearly all
William Allen Whlte'a Saturday Even-' the survivors are doomed to poverty
ing Post article on Kansas Prohibi
tion. Then he progresses to a discus
sion of the relative wealth of Kansas
and Colorado as shown by federal sta
tistics, pointing out comparisons to
Kansas' disadvantage. A reading of
the article leaves the Kansas man con
vinced that the editor of The Record
has made a conscientious effort to fill j
the assignment dealt "out to him by
his employer, but that la ail.
Assuming -the statistics offered to
be correct, we learn that Colorado,
with about half the., population, of
Kansas (yes, Kansas seems to have
drawn the population,, despite the ir
resistible attractions of its sister state).
pays $943,793.27; In revenue, to the
federal government' where . Kansas
pays but $732,152.46. Let's see; it is
correct, isn't it, that-some of this rev
enue comes from . government liquor
licenses? Whatever the item is, Kan
sas is saving it. - .-,
Kansas learns with regret that she
is behind Colorado in the per ; capita
valuation of school property. In the
average salaries bald to school teach
ers and in the daily cost per child of
education. Kansans will .blush in ac
knowledging the bitter allegation that
"Kansas is one huge grain field." The
writer sweeps all the arguments put
forth by WilUam Allen White and the
other prohibition boosters into the
trash heap with one sweep, as follows:
"It is a waste of time to discuss the
misleading statements and statistics
employed in the article referred to. It
is more profitable to consider things
directly bearing on the result of pro
hibition laws, which need no corrob
orating evidence to establish."
Let that assertion go double. It
makes a first rate reply to The Rec
ord's leader.
If Kansas, after thirty years of pro
hibition, wanted anything else, she
would have It. If Kansas, which, with
her one, huge rrrain field, can draw
and hold twice the population of Col
orado with its untold mineral re
sources added to a tremendous agri
cultural possibility, needed the
licensed saloon to make life tolerable,
she would have it. Thirty years ago
Kansas, of her own free will, voted the
saloon outlaw; nor has she ever seen
sufficient reason to desire a change,
. Kansas must, if she persists in her
headstrong course, get along without
certain possessions. She will have no
saloon keepers; she will need fewer
federal license collectors; she will re
quire fewer poorhouses and fewer
undertakers; she must" do without the
Individual who can not exist without
a saloon that is licensed, and, thank
goodness, she can do without publica
tions like The Record.
But Kansas has thought about these
thins-s. and made her bed. In that
'"bed she "Has 'lain1 these' thirty "yearst
worried" considerably from" time to
time by those elements of her popu
lation which seek to evade the en
forcement of the prohibitory law, but
never controlled by them. And as for
the Individuals who do break the pro
hibitory law, it may be true as a phil
osopher once pointed out: "A certain
amount of fleas 1b good for a dog."
And ' while the brilliant editor of
the Denver booze-boosting publication
views with alarm the lost opportuni
ties of Kansas, lost by reason of the
fact that Kansas has no saloons, dis
gusted Kansans who have journeyed
to the mile-high city in search of busi
ness and recreation return to the "one
vast grainfield," yclept Kansas, and
bring thence certain reports,, towit:'
That Denver is about the deadest in
corporated place they have seen in
their travels. This condlton does not
seem reasonable, considering the ar
gument of the Record. Denver, hav
ing licensed saloons, should be blos
soming like a rose, and full to over
flowing with money and business. -
ALBERT OF BELGIUM.
Of all the heroes of this enormous
war who will live in the memory of
man, one of the purest, one who can
never be loved enough, writes Maurice
Maeterlinck from Paris, is the king of
my little country. At the decisive hour
he was the heaven-sent man to whom
we call his people.
In a single moment he revealed what
Belgium was to the world. He had
I the admirable fortune to act decisively
and history would have lost one of its
beautiful and noble pages. Assuredly
Belgium .would have been loyal to her
word and a government which hesitated
would have been pitilessly swept away
by the indignation of the people, who
have never been treacherous but there
would inevitably have been some vacil
lation and confusion in the general up
heaval. The king's heroic line of action is
straight clear, and magnificent, like
that of Thermopylae indefinitely ex
tended; but what he has suffered and
suffers every day can only be told by
those who have had the happiness to
approach this hero the most sensitive
and mildest of men,- discreet, silent, of
delicious timidity, who loves his people
no less than a father loves his children.
than a son loves the mother who adores
him.
Of all that dear kingdom, his pride
and Joy, his house of happiness, there
remain only a few towns intact and
threatened by the vilest invader the
world has even seen. All his other
towns, so beautiful, smiling, tranquil,
so happy, living inoffensively, jewels of
the crown of peace, models of upright
famly existence, haunts of loyal activ
ity and cordial welcoming, open handed
bonhommie all these are dead. Stone
no longer rests on stene. The country-:
side, even to its tender verdure, one
of the most beautiful in the world. Is
only a field of horror.
Treasures have perished -which were
and - hunger, but what survives has
only one soul, reposing In the great soul
of Its king not a murmur, not a re
proach. "
Yesterday a town of SO. 000 Inhabitants
was ordered to quit the white houses
of the churches and secular homes.
Thirty thousand inhabitants, women.
children and old men plunged Into the
night to seek uncertain refuge In a
neighboring city which was almost
equally threatened and would probably
itself be emptied the next day. They
obeyed, silently, all approving and bless
ing their sovereign. He had done what
was necessary to do, what everyone
would have done in his place and while
everyone suffers as no other people
have suffered since the ferocious in-
vasions of the first centuries, they know
he suffers more than all of them.
They do not even think any other
course could have been taken; that they
could have been saved by sacrificing
their honor. They do not separate duty
from destiny; their duty with all its
frightful consequences seemed to them
an inevitable, an invincible natural
force against which it was" useless to
struggle. They have thus given an ex
ample of collective and almost uncon
scious heroism which equals and some
times surpasses the finest things in
legend and history since the days of the
martyrs.
People never died so simply for such
a simple idea. In no time has a people
so sacrificed its life with such ardor,
abnegation and enthusiasm. Immortal
virtues, which have hitherto raised and
protected the outposts of humanity,
never showed so powerful and brilliant.
Why worry about making your
money go a long way? Most of it
goes so far that it never comes back,
anyhow.
The wording, "Ten to One," on a
physician's office door does not nec
essarily indicate your chances of re
covery in his hands, although with
some doctors they might.
About the. time a song becomes
popular it is found that it isn't.
If small shoes were cheaper there
might be some excuse for pinching
the feetl
Belgium didn't need to turn the
other cheek. - The ' kaiser could
reach it.
J ay hawker Jots
Journalists of Thomas county cling
to the " words; ""mesoames" and
gents," which are found offensive a
few counties farther east.
Under the headline. "First Frost of
Season," the Trego County Reporter
publishes its account of a political
meeting with which it had no sympa
thy. The last circus of the season is lur
ing the sheckels of Kansas towns
with announcements of the small
est blood-sweating hippapotamus in
captivity.
"The troubles of the French troops
are Just beginning," predicts the
Jamestown Optimist. He explains: "In
a few days they will receive a big con
signment of Missouri mules."
The Village Deacon of the Osborne
Farmer advises: "Whenever you can
buy a fellow for two or three dollars,
do It. I have made several such bar
gains in this town and have realized
a fine profit in each case."
"The fact -that the girls af Mar
seilles decorated the long bearded sol
diers irom India with roses is our
ground for fear that a. craze, for whis
kers is imminent." . Alarmist note
from the Blue Mound Sun,- -
"A 200-pound girl was married in
Nebraska the other day, and the poor
editor of " er town " is -.nissing, as he
wrote that her wedding was an "ele
gant" affair and the printer made it
an "elephant" affair." Horton Headlight-Commercial.
Anna Carlson in the Lindsborg
News: "If you -vant to cut out wor
ries avoid folks who worry you.
There's no law t' .t compels you to
make bosom' friends of that kind of
folks, unless, of course, you basoen to
be married 'to one. of them." I
The Lamed Tiller anil Tnflor . in '
brai ding -about the . brand new, Model
14 Mergenthaler now in transit for
installation in its printery, says: - "It
will set ads, heads. Job work, climb
hills, behave well on iruddy roads, will
not skid or puncture, and it should
not be confused with the old-fashioned
machines in use in the daily
newspaper - offices in St. Louis and
Kansas City."
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBB.
What some people don't know sticks out
all over 'them.
The man who doesn't care what the
people think isn't a popular favorite.
People and flies so often get grouchy
when they become old and decrepit.
Believing that this is a free country,
many men get married and learn other
wise. Many stories could be made more In
teresting by writing what happened after
the last chapter.
. Our careful study of botany falls to re
veal whiskers among the list of orna
mental foliage plants.
When he first joins one, a young man
is apt to consider a college fraternity
more important than the government.
A poor man finally, gets used to being
broke, and can't understand the rich man
1 who regards the loss of funds a calamity.
You probably can't overcome your
prejudices; no one does to any great ex
tent, but you can refrain from serving
them on all occasions.
"I knew a man once who seemed per
fectly satisfied; he also knew me and the
other' neighbors, but not- much else."
Rufe Hoskins.
Some guests not only make themselves
at home, but stay so long they think they
are at home and the hospitable hostess
wishes they were. .
Children wear out shoes so rapidly that
the father of a large family occasionally
threatens to move to Holland, where
fashionable.
Journal Entries
On the Spur ,
of the Moment
8T ROT.K. MOtJLTON. .
; The Sissy Mao.
He picks out all his wife's gowns and
tells her how to have them made.
And he is more particular about the cut
and Bt and shade.
He loves to fuas around with plants and
is an expert In point lace;
A raveling upon his coat is nothing short
of a disgrace. ,
He dotes -on Mr, Edward Bok and Mar
garet Sangster tend the ilk.
And he can tell. Just by the feel, the
shoddy from the best of Bilk.
He hanga around the kitchen and "ne
passes out expert advice
On how to cook and how to serve and
how to do the thins: up nice.
He writes a small and perfect hand,
Spencerian in every way;
Immaculate in his attire he wears a new
shirt every day.
His manicuring Is Immense. He spends
as Inr as ( i ik.i
va umfj. !, vllavt.
When he goes out he spends a half an
uuur iu irying on nis nax.
wo microbe ever sets him He knows
uwi iiue ways vy nesri.
He Is a sanitary fiend and . germs with
him ra n ha& , . ..
Trot out your freaks and line 'em up
j w auuw us it, vuu cau
One wo has got a thing upon that tireless
Uncle Abner.
The fellers that admire Europe so blam-
sn mtma. a ti a
v,ai vmBui lj nu mere caiiu live onu
give us satisfied; Americans a much need-
Sa4 Mkaw
Wimmen win have to git along with
AtnAl4Bn m . : I , 1 .
u. ma iur f& wnu?, atuu im
c!ancea are that they will look a blamed
5. uu iney aia Dexore.
The only fellow that looks for trouble
and can't aee it Is a blind man.
RvAmr Hm. .1 a- . ...
most of the folks seem to git back to
m,t uiu-iuiuonea religion.
It is to be hoped that most of the French
tango dancers have been sent to the front.
At the huskln' bee over to Anse Higgins'
place last night Rev. Hudnutt got a red
ear and kissed the school marm and the
""'a' iun, ul mt Harasneu cnurcn ex
pecta to take the matter up and caU him
on the carpet. The sewing circle is so
excited over the "aftaif" that they have
had to have three meeUnga this week.
MiJU Pmim rTMKV.(.. t V. . . . il
""rf KJa m uusjr UlclfkJIil,
Christmas presents in shape of flannel
v.iiniii9 ui ner aamirers. wot wisning
to be egostlcal at all. she says she thinks
live or six dozen will be enough to go
around.
Old Hank Purdy says he has had so
much tire trouble lately that he la going
to put grindstones on his car for wheels.
OltA thinir tha .v. n...ii . a
- -" Maw aaMbaaa. w wu L DIBUU
xer much longer is jockeyed baseball.
nana simms, conductor or the
Silver Cornet band, says he would about
aS SOOn ha a . - ,.l-u. . .
waaa...v. WU .1 -!fS U I Uaa.II
or a street car. where a feller kin have
peace once m a while. There is
so much jealousy in the band that every
time they give a concert every teller has
tO tlAVA Sa aVl1a Ma,mlua. ,1 1
a5d snarc drum, and this far he has been
vaa " Bi luou tu Kree on a auei, DUt '
they are both gluing ambitious, and it I
Won't ha Innar Vuif.A a. ...1 1 1 i i I
each of 'em a solo. The last concert the
" save lasiea- ait night. They wouldn't
have stopped then, excepting that the
slide trombone player had to go to work
in the sawmill and the B flat cornet was
called away by the death of his grand
father from old age.
Signs of the Times.
Here and there i-iay be found an
occasional motorist who waits at
crosslnaTa for tniln tn 1.1.
who do not wait are not found any-
wucare.
Sir John 1 French' "may be a good
fighter, but .hjin,.a stlghty poor war
correspondent. .
A peace? drama' W4U' be 'enacted in
New York. It would T 3 more to the
point to have a peace drama enacted
in one of the European capitals.
A, Bermuda mail says he has sighted
a large comet with Its tail up. This
is firmly believed by many to be a sign
of war in Europe.
Every one in -imerlcr. will have to
wear white stockings next year, but
there is one consolation they don't
stay white very. long.
Again the proofrea "ers are commit
ting suicide. This happens every
time Russia becomes involved in a
war.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
A man of note isn't necessarily one
wh- Indorses another fellow's.
The more trouble some people have, the
more they -want to borrow. -
Many a fellow couldn't put up a good
stiff front, even with a boiled shirt on.
Some people flah for compliments with
bated breath, but with a bare hook.
; Water may be at a; premium in the In
fernal regions, but - the devil generally
gets his dew. , -;, ... -.
If absence makes the heart grow
fonder, why should we try to make our
presence felt? , ,
. Some people are so absent-minded' that
they forget . about everything except
themselves. ' j . v
The touch of genius IS Sometimes ex
emplified by the. -Bohemian who strikes
you for a loan. . i
A woman has no right , to question the
love of a husband who is willing to wear
the neckties she buys him. .'
Wieg "Why are you always late In
getting to the office?" Wagg "I believe
the office should seek the man." -.
Ancestral pride Is all right, but many a
fellow has been thrown completely in the
shade. by his family tree.
The only way to have a good time is to
go ahead and have it.
'. A poor imitation of wickedness is usual
ly better than the real thing.
- And most men are stockholders in the
Oood Intentions Paving company.
Even when the unexpected happens, the
A-ioia-you-so man is always on tne job.
As a matter of fact, most women
wouldn't want their own way if they
coma nave 11.
Some women wouldn t object to the
simple life if they could live it in a $10,000
bungalow.
' Every girl wants to marry rich. Girls
don't believe in love as much as men sup
pose they - do. i
. Can you still remember the old fashion
ed woman who used to suggest a mustard
poultice lorw natever aiiea you?
Once In a while a man waits until hia
wife begins to get crow's feet around her
eyes before discovering that he didn't
marry his affinity.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS. '
From the Chicago News.
Procrastination Is the thief of a good
time. -r .
Don't try to do a man who has a mania
for getting even. - - -
The chronic kicker Is always looking for
something to boot.
Poetry is the pastry of literature; prose
the corn bread and bacon.
No. Alonso,, it Isn't the best man at a
wedding who Is roped in.
Somehow intellect doesn't seem to have
much to do with haptaes-
An automobile that will consume Hay
would cause the farmers to rejoice.
Before asking .. children questions in
public be sure of their answers.
Many a politician with wheels thinks he
is the whole political macnine.
A man never realizes how fond he Is
of brunettes until h. marries a blonde.
A woman's idea of a good figure de
pends on whether it is her own or a
rival's. '.:
GONE. " ' . "
Gone with the mists and rains.
Sllpp'd from old mem'ry'a chains,
Deep with the shadows blent .
Heaped la the cash we've spent.
Sums that we lingered o'er.
Bills that once made us sore.
Things we were forced to buy.
Charges that made us sigh.
Gifts we could 111 afford, -Cash
paid for bed and board.
Cash for our petty needs.
Cash for our festive feeds.
Cash for a thousand things
Gone on the swiftest wings. -
Whither it flies, or fares,' - :
Now that it's gone, who cares?
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Evening Story
Laurels and Sunbonnet. 1
: (By "Dorothy Douglas.)
Madge Lester had won her crown of
laurels with comnarativa ease. From
a slip of a country girl, playing in .
amateur theatricals, she had ascended ,
to the heights of dramatic art. -Not
only had she won the hearts of tne
American people, but London, too, had
fallen, a ready victim, to her charm.
Yet. Madge was still the wholesome,
big-souled girl of the. country.
When Sir John Giltroy Was present
ed to her at the home of Lord Dan
vers. tit whose home a house party
was given in her honor, he knew that
tne one woman naa eniereo' nm iuc 1
n.. 1 ..i. .no.-!
alii uu0anu0,ui now ouuucu muu vm
pelting. so-great was tne . navoc
wrought that his male friends raUied.;"1':
him that evening: in the smoke room,
but Sir John only accepted the banter
with his slow, easy smile.
During the - fortnight following he
courted Madge with British determina
tion. There was no outward demon
stration of his purpose to win her for
his own, yet there -was not a soul
among the jolly house, party .that failed
to read Sir John's eyes when they rest
ed on Madge. - -
Before accepting Lord Danver s In
vitation Madge had asked the privilege
of solitude for an hour or two a day,iur "
that she might study up ' her part for
the forthcoming production of her new
play. i
"You see I am a slave to my dear
public even when on a holiday," she
had told her host. "I must work when
you are all shooting grouse and land
ing salmon."
Thus it happened that there were
many moments of the day when Sirwas a brilliant pupil and one of the
John Giltroy was not happy. He was professors offered to use his influence
not Jealous of Madge m art, -but he re-, n securingr a certain desirable opening
f3aaa.a.;u vaaa? vi iicviuua a.waa, for her '
when she could have been at his side.. . tn .
The time allotted him for courtship!, tZ'J:
was cant at best. He knew that the i courteously but firmly refused his help,
return to London meant rehearsals and A"fp som difficulty she found an op
fatigue that would assuredly preclude Portunlty for herself but it Is not so
him at least temporarily from her god as the opening the professor offer
horizon. ied nep-
As for Made, she felt almost sorry Her' explanation of her conduct Is
that Sir John Giltroy had appeared .simple, and to my mind at least, a com
upon that horizon at alL Her reason plete justification.
told her that she could not be happy "Yes, I know, Professor would have
as the mistress of a London mansion done well for' me, and it was kind of
even though the very best people in , him to offer, but I couldn't afford to
the land would be her friends. Her take his help. You see, I happen to
heart, in turn, seemed determined to know what it means. In the first place,
make her acknowledge that neither jt means that he expects you to be
could she be happy amid the apple 1 eternally and effusively grateful. In
blossoms and simplicity of the country , j , . "..
dehed romUYi, ?,e 1 ke Ws advice for the Totyr lite
Now.ettSateshef had win aeaV Lur'li J""" "L teupe to h4aV e
wreath, Madge had only one desire, and youP. own, ldeas a00" yUP career. And
that was to retire from the footlights'111 -e third place, he expects you to be
to some quiet country spot and there
steep her soul in nature' even as she
had steeped her life with artificial
moods of the stage.
I want a brood of kiddies brought
up under' the-scent of fruit 'blossoms'
and having for tiy 'a. lamb, some
chickens, rabbits and even a wee- pig-,
gy,"- she had once told a friend who
had been astonished at her refusal to
marry an eminent politician. "I think
I am still a farmer at heart," she
laughingly added.
Perhaps it was because her char-
acter for the new play was that of a better. She did brace up and Improved
simple country girl that Madge spent greatly and I praised her at every op
long hours in study of it, or it might - portunlty. But there were still several
have been that cold reason told her
that in escaping Sir John she was for
tifying her heart against the attack?
She knew by he look in his eyes that
he would ask her to marry him before
returning ta the city.
Even so, Madge found it difficult to
withstand - his pleading when he
poured forth his love for her with an
ardor that only a deeply affected man
possesses. She had not dreamed that
a reserved, easy-gc ing Britisher could
fall so completely and so gloriously
In love. It quite tock her breath away
and left her weaker than she had an
ticipated. "You know so little.- of me," she
said, when fina' y her . heart quieted
Its beating. "I am deeply honored
by your love, but I feel that our paths
are so different; they are so widely
separated that it would be difficult to
get the besth out of life under those
conditions." .
Without knowing It, Madge swayed
slightly toward him. His arms went
swiftly about her and his lips cov
ered her own before she could stir.
"I will give you another fortnight
to think it over," he said, making an
effort to speak with control while his
breath was coming jerkily. "You
will know then i- you love me."
He let her go then, and Madge went
ouickly to her room. Her cheeks were
b ilem amrlet nri her wonderful eves
fhi wonoerrui eyes
were shining.
"I will r- have to wait a fortnight:
to find out whether or not I love
him," she told herself, and daughed
weakly as she compared her emo
tions now with her emotionless re
ceptions of stage lovers.
Madge did not. however, deceive
herself into the belief that she would
marry Sir John Giltroy. Her dreams
of a life in the country and away from
all cares of social activity were too
deeply rooted in her being. Her lau
rel wreath and her standing in society
were as naght when compared to the
old sunbonnet days of her youth.
Having returned to her apartment
in town Madge became entirely occu
pied with her. new production.- She
had decided when she first saw her
Dart that the little ' trunk full of
I clothes with which she had come to
Broadway from the country would
costume the role as no other clothes,
would. The trunk was always with
her. It was the closest link with the
past and a treasured possession.
When Madge opened it to look over
its contents she had not realized that
a tumult of emotion would sweep over
her. The longing to get back to the
old farm brought tears to her eyes,
and when she picked up the old pink
sunbonnet that had clung to her curly
head through rain and through shine
Madge -wept softly Into its faded
depths. - -
"No, no!", she told herself ve
hemently. "I could not marry a titled
personage and tie myself down to con
ventional city life." She gazed fondly
at her ginghams and quaint little
frilled petticoats and her Sunday hat
with the pond lilies on It. They were
admirably suited to her part in the
new play and Madge decided that if
the play was a success she woo Id play
her season in London and a farewell
in New York, then retire from- the
8h pulled down - her masses ef
auburn hair, dressed it in ringlets, put
the pink sunbonnet. oa and' her Sun
day aingham and viewed herself In
the mirror. Madge laughed with de
light. Assuredly she bad gone hack
to nature and she drew In a deep
breath in imagination scenting the ap
ple blossoms. v
So engrossed was she that she had
not . heard the bell ring nor did she
know that her maid had admited Sir
John Giltroy. . . . . .
- She turned suddenly and looked
Into his laughing eyes. He took both
of her hands in his own and . sur
veyed her from head to foot,
"Well, if I had known you when
you were a wee girl - like that you
would never have been crowned by
theatrical laurels and I would never
have been a baronet. I would have
married you and kept you out on the
farm with me."
"You not a baronet? How could
you help It?" Madge questioned the
while she realized that she must give
this man his way whether that way
led through town mansions or coun-
try lanes.
I won my title," he said, simply.
"It is a degree of honor and not
hereditary. At heart I long for the
vastness of country, life. I am a
farmer by birth and a baronet by en
deavor.". He drew Madge nearer to
him -and looked fondly beneath the
sunbonnet.
I have come for my
he said. -
jiMr
answer, aear,
My , answer," whispered Madge
Is yes." (Copyright. 1914,
McClure Newspaper Syndi-
by the
cats.)
Evening Chat
BT RUTH CAMERON.
DesnatndinaT s Stimulus.
The religion of people who try to be
good because if they are they expect to
be rewarded by pleasures In Heaven
ways seemed a rather doubtful quantity
to me.
- And somewhat similar to It Is the
good conduct of those who expect to be
paid in praise and gratitude for being
generous or even for doing what is just
and right.
An acquaintance of mine graduated
from a. school of music last vpar She
ready to do anything and everything he
wants from coming at most incon
venient times to help him with his
classes, to using your influence to
place anyone he happens to fancy."
I think We all know people alike that,
and after a lesson or two we all learn to
avoid their favors.
People who will try to do their best
just so long as you keep them constant
ly stimulated with praise are another
species of this genus. I once had a
helper who had been doing poor work
and after a serious talk promised to do
! Important points in which I was not
satisfied and I finally had to speak of
them. Whereupon she promptly be
came cross and sulky and said it was
no use trying to please me. . Just be
cause I had temporarily removed the
stimulous of praise! . y
We all need a little praise and grati
tude now and then to keep us going.
But to crave that stimulus all the time
and to be useless without it is just as
much a weakness as depending upon
any kind of stimulus.
BY
THE FOX IX D THE CAT.
Once upon a time a cat was walk
ing through a forest when he met a
fox. "My good friend," said the fox,
"you have a very handsome coat, but
vour tail is not anywhere near as
handsome as mine. Come with me
. d 1 wlll Bnow you how to make It
grow.
YOU CO AHCAD
So the cat went along with the fox
to his den, for he very much admired
the tail of the fox and thought it
would ma'-e all the cats jealous when
they saw his bushy tail. - -
"The first thing you must do," said
the fox, when they arrived at his
home, "is to build the fire and cook
the supper. Exercise is the best thing
to make yoar tail grow bushy." ,
So the cat cooked the supper and
when it was ready he sat down at the
table to eat with the fox.
"And another very necessary thing
to be dons." said the fcx. "is to diet.
You should eat very little and noth
ing but green stuff. You better go out
and eat some srass and then drink
some water. ou will find a creek
back of the rock by the door." .
j Kanscs (2crnxirJ j
MORS WATCHFUL WAmNO.
It seems to be the judgment of moat
observers that the first chief of the
Mexican revolutionists Is a type of per
son very difficult to tolerate. Carranaa,
is described as painfully touchy, vain '
and proud:1 suspicions, intense, narrow;
quite lacking in a sense of humor. He
seems also to have some ot the merit
of his defects persistence, stubborn
ness of will, the long memory of an
Indian. Whether the more human Villa,
half' savage, half child, but a ready
fisted genius with a dim but growing
vision of what brotherhood might be,
has waited until too late to try to lift
the whiskered nuisance out of the sad
dle, time must reveal. The one sure
thing in this (newest mixup is that It
isn't primarily our affair and that It
will be the course of wisdom for us to
keep far out of it. We can lose nothing
if Carranaa shall be canned, for he
hates us with a snake's venom. Villa
seems so much abler, broader and more
human that we may feel like giving him
our sympathy. Wichita Beacon.
ETHICAL.
No lover of civilisation can fail to
rejoice at the high ethical tone of
modern warfare the kindly consider
ation that the warrior has for the
feelings of his enemy.
In olden times the brazen trumpet
struck fear to the heart of the victim
of carnage and caused him to writhe
In suspense as he contemplated the
hour when he n.utt meet his foe on
the field of conflict. The whole
scheme of warfare was designed with
a view to prolonging those miserable
moments of waltlrg for a chance to
fight for one's life. Nowadays we si
lently sail above our enemy, drop
ping sweet DOmDs tnat painlessly anni
hilate him and his companions. We
quietly slip up under his ships and
send a thousand of his brothers into
eternity without giving them a single
tremor for . their safety. . Without
causing a momrnt - uneaslaess in a
single heart, we mine a field and blow
a brigade to atoms.
Horror and fear- have been driven
from warfare, painless and sudden
eternity is the boon that science has
conferred upon us. The modern war
rior armed with ethical ideals, sends
out these words of comfort: "Make
your peace with Gcd, and fear not, for
I will kill you unaware." Manhattan
Industrialist.
PRICE CHANGES OF A CENTURY
A subscriber to the Weekly Blade,
living in Pennsylvania, has sent us
an account of a daybook kept in 1814
by one of his forebears, the keeper of
a general store in Amity , township,
Berks county. From this daybook one
catches a glimpse not only of what
100 years ago it cost the Pennsylvania
citizen to live, but also a glimpse of
how he lived. For Instance, "with
nearly every bljl of goods charged
would be attached one gallon of whis
ky, rum or brandy, price 25 cents."
Homes were lighted with candles,
"costing anywhere from 37 cents
to 87 cents a pound.
"Calico was 37 Va cents to 75 cents
per yard.
"Tea was 31 a 'pound.' - -
"In one charge a man bought- -one'
quarter of veal at 4 cents a pound.
'"Eggs were never more than 10
cents per dozen, with 3 to 8 cents the
commoner prices.
"Chickens, 12 c to 18 cents apice:
"Chickens, 12 He to 18 cents apiece;
"Beef, 3 to 4 cents; wool, 10 cents
to 12 cents per pound; muslin, 50
cents per yard.
"The climax was reached In one
charge one bushel of salt, 313."
We seem to have boxed the com
pass in the matter of the costs of liv
ing. One hundred years ago It was
manufactured goods and commodities
against which transportation costs
were charged which were high, food
that was cheap. Today factory pro
ducts are cheap, food dear. We won
der if things will ever be. so comfort
ably arranged that food and manu
factured goods and commodities from
far distances will all be cheap From
The Toledo Blade.
MliS. rJLWALKER
The cat did not like this part of the
bargain very well, but he did want
the bushy tail, so he went, but he was
ao hungry the next morning that he
could hardly wait for breakfast time.
"You can cook those chickens for
breakfast," said the fox, "and then
you can go "t and ctch a bird or
two, but you must be back in time for
diner, as you must not lose an op
portunity to exercise."
The cat did not need t. be told a
second time that he could eat, and off
he ran. After a few days of cooking
for the fox and waiting on him the
cat began to ask about his tail.
"When will it begin to grow?" he
asked.
"Oh. you will have to be patient,"
said the fox. "You- canont expect to
have a tail like mine jrrow in such
a short time. Tonight you better
come with me and help bring home a
fat goose and a hen: that will give you
a little more exercise."
So that night fae cat went along
with the fox, and when they came to
the barnyard t'.ie fox said, "You ti
ahead; the hens will not notice you
then I can come in and pull them off
their roost w'thout any trouble." -
The cat did as he was told, but Just
as he stepped in front of the hen
h use, click went something, and the
cat found himself a prisoner in the
trap that had been set for the to
,ox;trottIJB oft could.
Come back and help me out of this
trap you got me Into." called the cat"
"I guess not," called back the fox'.
"That was ust the reason I sent you
ahead. I was suspicious of that farm
tat now Me"TtChln 'e.
but now he will not be on the lookout
yourTall wirAoff
tVahpe hI": th-
"V"1 hi" ,"on and do not
associate with those who" are. looked
!22La "upJflon tor' e
miany yoq keep."
(Copyright. 1314. by the McCure
Newspaper Syndicate, New York
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