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Assnriatinn.
There are dead loads of reasons for
war, but no excuses. .
"Norway Mackerel Strong,"
headline of market report.
says
The photographs of Mrs. Carnan
would seem to indicate a verdct of not
guilty.
The Chicago Post speaks of a Hindu
Trwiin r Hindus ever come.
from any other place? i
- I
While taking stock of military re- '
nourcea the United States should not
overlook Its stanaing army ui guvci
nor's staff colonels.
' Fortunately the" money wasted on
war goes back into circulation, chiefly
among those who are not fighting.
The loss is not expressible in money.
General Villa carried the Aguas
Calientes presidential convention with
15,000 supporters. General Antonio
Villareal, compromise candidate, also
ran. .a a
Tip to society editors: Mrs. Car
ranza. wife of the MexicanTte-ldentr
with members of their family','! con
templating a visit to the United
States.
Probably Italian memories of the re
cent conflict with Turkey exercise the
best sort of a restraint in keeping hte
country out of the present w. k. war.
The American question is whether
to convert' swords into plowshares, or
plow-shares into swords. Better get
some raw material and make a few
more of both.
General .Villareal's hasty evacuation
of Aguas Calientes when General Villa
moved in with a large armed body is a
glittering example of a movement for
strategic reasons.
The losses in the Mexican engage
ment round Naco seem to be chiefly
on the American side of the boundary.
More argument in favor of that in
ternational backstop.
Here's the real point to Congress
man Gardner's remarks. Are you in
favor of universal military training, or
are you not In favor of It? Is it bet
ter to be safe than sorry?
Kansas wheat raisers, hearing the
unofficial report that the Australian
crop is so short that there will be none
for export, will hope for the best while
waiting for an official statement.
Kansas should worry. Best wheat
crop on record Is in the bins." Best
prices in 40 years are nailed to the
masthead for months to come. Noth
ing to stew about but the income tax.
His uncle says Weiner, the man
who threatens to hold up his gift of
ten millions to Harvard, has no such
amount of money and consequently
couldn't begin to give It. Isn't that the
Wurst?
"All Japan, from the prime minis
ter down," is eager for peace with
the United States, reports President
Harry Pratt Judson of Chicago Uni
versity, just returned from the
Orient. Consent.
This is the highly recommended sea
son for swatting the chinch-bug. Gov
ernor Hodges should not omit the cus
tomary autumnal message to the yeo
manry of Kansas on this subject. A
political campaign should not consti
tute an open season for this despoiler.
"Drug Intoxication." as it Is called
by the federal public . health service,
costs Americans 500 millions a year.
Incidentally there has been a 100 per
cent increase In deaths from diseases
of organs affected by some of the more
popular nostrums. Perhaps the more
intelligent part of the American public
will listen, after a while, to the so
licitations of professional science and
introduce a little enforcement of safe
ty first upon the practice ' 6t ' unre
stricted "doping.".
CONSIDER STEEL. . - -Food
for meditation npon our in
dustrial methods and an insight Into
what really alia American railroads
and. probably, other Industries, is fur
nished in the day'a report of the suit
for the dissolution ' of the ' United
States Steel corporation now in prog
ress in the federal court at Philadel
phia. 'The newspaper, reader who
neglects that report la missing some
thing he ought to know about as a
citizen of thia country. One. interest
ing point should be noted.
In 1911, when the suit for dissolu
tion of the Steel corporation was
started, some of the - steel directors
were directors in 62 railroad corpora
tions operating fifty per . cent of the
mileage of the country, according to
the declarations of Jacob M. Pickin-
son, counsel for the government.
The news report continues:
"The interlocking of directors, Mr.
Dickinson added, in respect to the
leading manufacturers, is significant
in connection with the fact that the
price of rails has remained uniform
aince shortly after the formation of
the corporation."
Mr. Dickinson rtates as a fact that
directors of the Steel corporation
have been directors in 640 different
companies and corporations exclu
sive of the Steel corporation and its
subsidiaries. This interlocking of di
rectorates extends to banks and trust
companies and into all lines of busi
ness where the power of either of the
metals, steel or gold, may be particu
larly lucrative.
There, you have the case. A high
tariff prevents competition with
American made steel which is manu
factured by one set .f friends. This
same set of friends controls the des
tinies of most of the railroads and
sells them steel rails, which cost
about $11 a ton, at a price ranging
around $25. Railroads, compelled to
pay double value for immense quan
tities of steel, complain that they
can't make money and ask for more
freight rate Income.
Interesting at this time is the rec
ommendation by B. F. Toakum, who,
whether or not he holds any Steel
corporation stock, is essentially a
railroad operator and builder, that
the government should actually take
an interest in the ownership And
management of the railroads of the
country.
American methods of getting at in-
aUBtrial reforms are, to speak plainly,
"sloppy." Instead of turning the
spigot to shut off national wastes we
try holding our hands over the end of
the pipe and are squirted in the eyes
while groping for the sane remedy.
As a matter of fact, the cause of the
trouble should be set down to ignor
ance and carelessness on the part of
most of the people who, when such
defects in our economic system are
pointed out, are prone to howl with
rage instead of setting about calmly to
remedy the difficulty.
- . If. -a. .restricted .number X. of . ,stjjrt
manufacturer" are '-making - -mere
money , than they, need .by controlling
the market where they obtain most of
the profits, at the ultimate expense of
the entire country, It is an economic
folly. 'The remedy is probably not to
be found in the mere dissolution of
the Steel corporation.
The real remedy for this .nd for all
the rest of the long train of similar
evils that from time to time are point
ed out will result from a stiff course
of self education on the part of the
American people in the subject of
practical government.
The Priest of La Buissiere.
Irwin Cobb, the charming writer of
the Saturday Evening Post, haa a re
markable story - In that paper this
week.
A f eatu j of t'- e story is the march
of the German army through Bel
gium. At La Buissiere, when the
Germans entered the town, he was
told that they put a priest in front of
them with his hands tied behind his
back, to, keep the citizens from firing
on them.
This little story, . when one first
reads it, prompts one to say to him
self, and maybe to his neighbor,
"Well, well, isn't it awful cruel of
those German soldiers to do that?"
But when one reflects, what is his
thought? Is he not 'nclined to look
at things nearer h--ne for a parallel
case? 'And is he not then Inclined to
say to himself, "Well, well, why blame
the Germans after all; do we not see
precisely, or practUally, the same
1 thing here in Kansas?
For who is more like the priset of
La Buissiere than our own Arthur
Capper, whom, the standpatters have
placed before them as a living buckler
to minimize tl.e danger of Progressive
attack ?-
The only difference between the two
men is this, that the priest of La
Buissiere got his leadership by force
while Arthur Capper got his by seduc
tion.
And nothing is plainer than that
Arthur, like the priest of La Buissiere,
is leading the army, of standpatters
with his hands tied behind his back.
It is pathetic. Dave Leahy in El
Dorado Republican. - -
Use Nile Weeds for Fuel.
For centuries it has been remarked.
and returning travelers today relate,
that a strange growth of thick weeds
and sedge near the surface of the wa
ters of the Nile, above Khartum, is re
sponsible for the impassability of the
river at that point. To any one who
has visited the Sudan the barely navi
gable Nile about that region Is a source
of great disappointment. Former Pres
ident Roosevelt particularly commented
upon it.
Baedecker- carriers niay now save
their tears. These vain regrets are lit
erally wasted on the desert air, for two
German pundits, Herr Dr. von Rath
and Prof, von Horing. together with an
English military savant, after a pains
taking investigation of this fiber-like
moss, have constructed startling
theory that this was the sort of stuff
that, under proper geological condi
tions became what we recognised as
coal. Then they set about to prove their
hypothesis by facts.
The periodic flooding of Egypt by the
Nile may or may not have something to
do with the rapid accumulation of this
sedge, called sudd. It possibly has noth
ing whatever to do with ';hls formation,
but that Is neither here nor there.' so
far aa coal ia concerned. The essential
fact is that it gather so quickly In the
waters of the blue and white Nile that
the application of such a refuse and
waste to fuel uses will produce a cheap
and . easily accessible material. Be
cause coal is almost completely . absent,
and practically prohibited for fuel uses,
at the necessarily high price in the Su
dan, industrial development of the
country has been seriously retarded.
Dr. Leonard Keene Hirshberg, in the
Indianapolis Star.
J ay hawker Jots
"Let us all Join hands and help nail
the lies and the liars." proposes Fred
Hemenway in the Junction City Senti
nel. Why not tie 'em behind our
backs?
"One - reason for the high cost of
living is that so many people have a
garage in the back yard where the
chicken coop used to stand. Nor
wich Herald. '
Another gusher quits flowing: "Jas.
Gushwa refused to- let loose of an
item tcday. It Is very quiet when Jim
hasn't an item for the paper." Con
cordia Kansan.
Tetanus set in after the 16-months-
old baby of Henry Laverentz of Huron
haa been pecked oil the temple by a
rooster. The child died after an ill
ness of two days.
Garden City is vaccinating, quarantin
ing and injecting anti-toxin in a well
organized effort to control what threat
ens to be a double-header epidemic of
smallpox and diphtheria.
The editor of the LeRoy Reporter ad
vertises 35 shocks of sorghum for sale.
Evidently one o' those long delinquent
subscriptions, which are the bane of
every ' country editor's existence, has
been paid.
Carping critic comment of Chanute
Tribune : "Kansas City seems to be
about aa unemotional as a snake in a
chunk of ice. It is only going to cele
brate the opening of its new union
station three days."
"When one looks at some children
that roam the streets and then think of
their parents, we wonder, not that those
children are so bad, but that they are
as good as they are'observes.- 'Will
Wilkerson of the Spring Hill New Era.
There is considerable booze being
handled in Everest and some one is go
ing to feel the heavy weight of the law's
right arm if they are not carefuL A
disgraceful scen was enacted in town
about a week ago and such cases should
feel the weight of the law. Everest En
terprise. The champion wrestler of Beattie con
cludes his letter of challenge to a re
luctant rival with the following in
cendiary sentences: "Well, if this don't
bring you out of your shell, I give up all
hope of wrestling you and we will all
know what is wrong with you.- Just
tell every one you see that you don't
want to flirt with any lemons."
The dangers of the city are depicted
in the following item from the Morgan-
ville Tribune: Last Friday night while
Joe Ash ton was crossing the street just
south of Marshalrs store, a stranger
stepped up and smashed him in the jaw
and knocked him down. While Joe was
more or less dazed by the blow, , the
stranger "frisked" his pockets to the
tune of about fourteen iron men. ,
Walter Johnson, the wonder working
pitcher of the, Washington Americans.
is back home at Cofleyville , with- his.,
new wife to spend the winter Sxhis
country home east, of the. city. He is
going to play in five post season games
at home for the benefit of his old
friends, who seldom get a chance to see
him' operate now that he is playing for
the big money. - ,- , .
Globe Sights
BT THE ATCHISON GLOBE.
Old fellows never like tnlkine- ahniit
"young blood."
The averasR nannflr iiimi'r rnnii in
stead of a blessing.
Drunks and CAnriiritA ahalra nanHe
entirely too much.
' When Short Jenks talks the most
foolish, he ia the most serious.
A political speech is flapdoodle ten
dered in a presentable manner.
A real picture of despair is a "baby
rack" man when business Is bum. .
- - ....... . . l uicy leil
they were the only ones similarly eu-
TIia s(n-.nf -tftA itrnwn at n.lttt-n
- - u t a JJUIIULIU
meetine- is suhtoct to tho viHaat r,m
of estimation.
------ - -" ..ne? llUlliailSlll
who knows the most remedies for that
areaaea Disease.
No man has much Inch sat invinr his
enemies, although his friends mav
cause him more trouble.
It has been discnvAroH whw Thva
Johnson has never been able to land a
job in Atchison. He is a shipbuilder
uy iraue.
The thicken which
npiirhrtnr'a flnnmv xl A
a wcu auu iu ruusi
early, aren't the ones which cause most
wi nit: txuuuie, nowever.
"So far as T'm fnnfartiAr1 thA
versation doesn't lag as much as -it
should. And the chances are vou aIro
talk too danged much." Bute Hos
kins. i
An Atchison politician says that
whenever he is making a speech and
someone leaves th nii A t
- . . ico v w
Iieve the departing one is a doctor who
uiusi micna 10 a patient
QUAKER MEDITATIONS. -
From the Philadelphia Record.
A man of many parts the hair
dresser. . - : . ,
Nothing is impossible, but it takes
a genius to demonstrate it.
When a woman is alwavs crvinr.
tell her to keep her powder dry.
Many a fellow ridea a hobby who
never gets out of the also-ran class.
Some people are so busy-looking for
trouble that they don't see their op
portunities. It's only when they want to register
a kick that somo people put their best
foot forward.
Mighty few people make the excuse
of being hoarse when asked to sing
their own praise.
Tou never can tell. Many a man
who. sings "heaven is my -, home"
spends most of his time visiting.
Wigg "That fellow Longbow
should be taken with a grain of salt."
Wagg "Yes, he's too fresh."
Many a girl is as pretty as a pic
ture, but you don't often see one as
pretty as a picture of herself.
Age generally comes with wisdom,
but unfortunately wisdom doesn't al
ways reciprocate and come with age.
"A new broom sweeps clean." quot
ed the Wise Guy. "But a new servant
girl seldom stays long enough to per
form that feat." eomplained the Sim-
pie Mug. ?
ex-
On the Spar
of the Moment
BT ROT K. MOULTOM-
Fan. ; ... :-
I care not how the birdies sing
Their - charming farewell summer
lays.
I cannot say I'm crazy o'er
The beauty of these autumn dars.
I care not how the leaves may turn
From beauteous green to burnished
gOld. '..'
I care not for the glorious skies
Of fall the poets have extolled.
There's just one thought I harbor now,
A thought that stirs my very aouL
All else growi pale beside the fact.
I've got to buy my winter's coal.
- Uncle Abner.
If the war .. In . Europe keeps up
every military expert in our village
will' be discredited. About twenty
five of 'em have predicted tho ma
neuvers wrong, already.
It doesn't make much difference
how much money a feller has got just
so he has got plenty of it. and a man
doesn't have to live to be ISO" years
old to find that out, either.
A town without a brass band to like
a family without a phonograph. It Is
name to worry along and have a pret
ty. good time in life."
Another thing that Job never did
was to try to unscrew the top offn a
glass fruit Jar.
Bwa Perkins is so stingy that he
stole a ham so that he could be sent
to the county Jail and get a hair cut
for nothing.
Miss Amy Stubbs, our village mil
liner, says competition is so fierce In
her line that there ain't no more than
800- per cent profits in trimmed hats
any. more, and she is thinkin' of goin'
out of business.
There is about as much seereev
about a courtship in a town of 1,200
as there is about a magazine explo
sion aboard a battleship. As soon as
a ieiier ana a gal are seen together
in an ice cream parlor folks betrin to
wonder when they are going to git
married.
If all the church members I know
are going to -heaven, tt sometimes
seems to me as though I ain't so
durned partickler- about it.
It begins to look as thousrh corned
beef and cabbage is a partnership
that ain't goin - to be dissolved In
some time or digested, either.
xnere am t no feller who la so much
of a bore as a professional optimist.
luvery ieiier wants to lausrh mnxt nt
the time, but he has got to cry once
or twice a year to sort of oil up the
machinery.
An Autumn Wall.
By gum. I hate to go to school;
iu almost ratner be a fool.
1 got to set in. thera nil Hsv
When I ort to go out and play.
I think it Is a doggone bluff
To make us learn a lot of stuff
Which we ain't n.vo, rAin A
- - - - iu use.
Just look at all the time we lose.
y no cares it Nero burned up Rome,
Or if the world is round, or fiat?
i uon i, ana i will tell you that. : . ,-
I have to get licked! every day, .
It somehow seeing to come that way. '
" '" orai perrorm the trick,
lhe teache-r HnM. it w4t. A
- - n.w. a, OLMJIW.
And when the ,techer licks me bad
v viuir irum aaa.
RgM froemTh a,Sf f"
There ain't no peace: for any kid
vv no goes to school as I haVe did.
It. makes met stuhwn ,
' o i. IIIVWl.
By gum, to have to go to school.
; The War. in Europe. .
(By our own Staff Correspondent
. .4- Kerr. Censored.)
' - v". uu. i ne cen-
!0J. be??.n to cut out swear
"7" w "t "e noted by this dis
patch from A mat a.. .1 i
- . lv 1H a war
when a correspondent can't even
A terrlflo , .
Place twA mlw,,"sr' .as mKen
After the engagement. Gen. ,
oi i..e victorious army gave out
the following interview, which will
go down in hiirv . .
j uiagvuK LUH Xa
m remarks of famous men:
nave met
and Is . There is
not T or - and
yesterday. The has
ior virtnrv i.
last man,.
for
at last
It is officially reported that the
" lOSt . . -Mn An I .1 ! , . .
. . . ugnting
yesterday and the i- lost , -.
The'- ' rp rImiiniv In n . i .
- - ... "i a 1 ui i
at , which is nxi.ii t, it
The is suffering from pneu
monia and is very 111. but is feeling
perfectly well and has left for the
irunuer, -ueneral
says the
troops are In excel
lent snirits.
There is firhtine-.i..
ic irnore
inr
back yesterday and . then in turn the
"' - me , nrnvA th.
"'"ve uie ; Dack.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
Love for money Is never platonic.
A ATOOd cnnVArsotlnnollAt I.. ..
...j ici. u LI tfi;
casionally. -
" Women wlth the most cheek 'do the
least blushing.
Sooner or later -the high flyer must
pay up or come down.
' A man thinks" he is misunderstood
because he doesn't know himself.
Every woman "enjoys doing charity
work if some man will put up the
money. V ?' ":
A man's interest In a divorced
woman never lets up until he discov
ers why.
Earthly angels are all right, but
there isn't much excitement in being
married to (in.
About the only difference in babies
is the difference In their mothers' pci
sonai opinion.
He is truly a wise man who refrains
from discussing religion, politics or
self with his friends.
Beyoad a doubt the telephone has
conferred more benefits upon mankind
than all the political orators that ever
talked through their hats.
Humor of the Day
"What on earth is Eliza fretting so
about?" "About the paper she has to
read before the Don't Worry Club." Bal
timore American.
"Do you believe he's sincere?" "I do.
H says such a' lot ' of disagreeable but
truthful thlng-',j pwtrolt Free Press.
T would have .you understand," said
the actor who was talking of salary for
next season, "that I have arrived." "I
suens that's right,'' answered the man
ager, who was once a railroad conductor;
"and having arrived, here Is where you
get off." Washington. Star. - ...
The Evening
: . Letltla"s tmctmm.:.f'.-r'''
" , (By Catherine Cooper!.) " ' - "j
"My dear Letitla, you are no more'
suited to the lecture platform than I
am to open a mothers' meetlng,' Nor
mon Prince gased fondly down, at bis
sweetheart. There was. however, suf
ficient of masculina superiority in his
expression to drritate Letitla. ; "
"Men always make such' absurd
comparisons," she retorted quickly.
"Just because you cannot preside at a.
mothers' meeting is no reason to sup
pose" I cannot lecture successfully on
better babies."
"The Idea is absurd," Norman said,
more hotly than l.o realised. "A girl
of your age can't know anything about
either better or vorse babies, and as
for lecturing on the subject to women
who have brought up children as old
as you . are well, your own common
sense should teach you the folly of
such an idea." ;
"And your own common sense
should tell you that I would not con
sider lecturing on a subject I had not
mastered. Just because women-have
brought up children Is no sign they
have brought them up properly."
"And you are going to teach these
mothers what their children might
have been had they heard your lecture
first." Norman laughed long and
heartily. - .- .
Letltia's eyes were fixed wrathfully
upon him. Che was very serious over
her proposed series of lectures before
the club and she did not like being
laughed at. She was sorry Norman
was so fine a specimen of manhood.
It was difficult tj give him up, but
perhaps when she had succeeded in
showing, him and her world that she
was an efficient speaker he would
come back to her and bow in acknowl
edgment of her a-ift.
Before she could speak the fiery
woras mai would terminate their en
gagement Norman himself gave ex
pression to his quickly matured resolu
tion. "Letitia, I am sorry to have hurt
you, but I think I understand you
better than you do yourself, t also
realize that you are i.oing to give me
back my ring and tell me never to
darken your door again. Isn't that
right?"
"Yes!" retorted Letitla defiantly.
"Well, under the circumstances. I
think you are right. But I see no rea
son why we should sever our friend
ship. I have always been your best
friend and always want to be." He
looked earnestly into Letitla's sur
prised eyes. "Can't you manage to
promise me that?"-
"Y-yes." agreed Letitla, trying not
to seem amazed at his readiness to
sever the closer tie. "But I will be
very busy during the -next week or
two preparing my lecture," she added
by way of introducing the new Le
titia. She more or less reluctantly
pulled off the beautiful ring from her
plump little finger and gave' it to
Nprman.
"Oh, thanks," he said, with a mer
ry smile, "we almost forgot to end
things properly." He put the ring in
his pocket with the casual remark,
"I suppose it is up to me to find an
other girl before this solitaire burns
a hole in my pocket." .
Letitla's head went up into the
air, but she made no comment. She
was frightfully hurt, but defiant. .
"I want to help you all I can,'
Norman told her, with his usual gen
tie manner toward her.' "If you just
study up your lecture and practice. If
on me it will help you wonderfully:
You've no idea how difficult it is to
speak the things out that you have
conceived in your mind, especially be
fore a seething mass of people. Your
voice sounds like a lost soul when you
first speak and you get positively
ghastly weak in the knees." . He
laughed in recollection of his own
first attempt. "So if you just practice
upon me a bit you'll find it will help
a lot when it comes to the nerve-
racking ordeal."
Letitia essayed a smile, but she
felt rather weak in anticipation of
hAY? -first MnAi.h . -
"You are certainly cheerful and
encouraging," she said finally. "How
ever, I think your suggestion Is a good
one. I will be very glad to speak my
lines over before you. It is good of
you to think of it." In her gratitude
Letitia would have offered him the
habitual lover's kiss, but she remem
bered just in time that they were no
longer lovers but only friends.
Norman smiled but made no com
ment. , He had seen her swiftly with
held caress and in his heart rejoiced,
He did not press the advantage, but
shook hands in most friendly fashion
and left her. -
After that Letitia threw herself
heart and soul into the preparation of
her lecture to be delivered before the
club women of the town. She felt
very important and very much in ear
nest. Norman seemed to have sud
denly realized that she was a woman
of some purpose, and was helping her
in every way. He listened patiently to
her speech sometimes twice during an
evening, until Letitia felt that she
could stand before a thousand people
and say it without a tremor or mis
take. "I don't know what I would have
done without you," she told him on
the night before the meeting. "You
are going to stand in the wings and
prompt me if I need it, aren t you?
"Sure you can't lose me," laughed
. Norman. He had tried, and with re
i markable success, to stifle entirely any
loverlike feeling he had for . Letitia.
If the girl missed the comfort of his
great, strong arms she did not say so.
The following morning Letitla
awoke with a peculiar sense of pre
monition. She felt strangely weak in
the knees, and without apparent rea
son all the nerves In her body were
twitching so that she had no desire
to eat. She . tried desperately to fling
off the sickening dread that had
gripped her. During the day she did
succeed and - toward evening her
qualms had so far left her that she
could laugh at her early morning silly
weakness. She dressed with habitual
care and the result, a mass of soft
pinks, was a Joy to behold. Even
Norman, who thought her wonderful
ly beautiful, had never seen her so
altogether adorable. He had diffi-
' culty In restraining the desire of his
arms, but he smiled Joyfully ana
gripped her hands In a friendly clasp
before Letitla went rorwara to tne
platform to deliver her lecture on
"Better Babies.?
The hall was crowded. When Le
titla stood out and faced her audi
ence she would have smiled in friena
ly greeting save that her Hps were
parched. Also her sight was blurred
and she seemed swaying on a bottom
less platform. Every line of her lec
ture had escaped her dazed brain.
She stood, it seemed to her for an
endless time, tortured with dumb
fright, then turned and went swiftly
behind the curtain and into Norman's
waiting arms. Never In all her life
long did his arms seem so wonderful
a haven of rest. w-- .'.,
SWItay masterful gentleness he pt
her Inte . chair, thenwent out to the
platform, a lOnoe there, he toldu. the
friendly audience who had come to
hear Letitla's lecture, all that she
would have told them. Norman knew
It practically word for word. The
club women . war amused and
charmed. When he had finished a
long and loud applause was given
Norman then turned back Into the
wings. Letitia waa smiling and there
was a world of relief in her eyes. She
flung herself happily into Norman's
arms and felt in his pocket for the
ring ahe had given him.
"I will be engaged to you again."
she said. "If yeu still love me and
will never make me step on a. plat
form again."
Since Norman'- -answer waa most
satisfactory, she added: "I might
have known I could never succeed in
anything well except In loving you.
I mnnoae all the women will be
wanting. you: to. lead the mother's
meetings now.". .
Norman only smiiea. tcopyriKm,
114, . by the McClure Newspaper
Syndicate.). . L
As the Twig Is Bent.
"As the twig Is bent so . the tree Is
Inclined," Is a familiar- saying, ana.
like most familiar sayings, as wrong
as It ia right.:
Proverbs are as great liars, as sta
tistics. , .- -
Rend a twig stronglv in one direc
tion and it mav stay bent that way
and thus determine the direction of
the tree's growth. But on the otner
hand. If It Is a certain una or twig u
may rebound to the opposite direction
and the tree may grow, not as tne
twig Is inclined, but Just the opposite
wav. .,...
There are some natures wnicn can
be bent In one direction or another by
the application of sufficient pressure
In the twig stage. There are other
natures on which pressure in any dl- i
rection produces exactly the opposite
effect from that desired.
For instance. I know a man who Is
suffering from -indigestion because he
has let his teeth go to rack and ruin.
He hasn't been in a dentist's chair for
twenty years and the reason Is this:
"When I . was a boy my mother kept
me most of the time in church or the
dentist , chair, and since I have grown
up I haven't been in either." That
unquestionably was a case where the
tree did not grow, as the twig was in
clined. .
Again. I know a woman whose fa
ther and mother were very strict with
her- .as a child. One of the forms
which this strictness took . was an ef
fort to crush out the love of dainty
things, which is as natural to the
heart of a pretty young girl as the
song is to the throat of a thrush or as
fragrance is to the violet.
They dressed her in needlessly ugly
clothes. They made her look unlike
other children, and In thus trying to
mortify her vanity they only succeed
ed in mortifying her pride and foster
ing in her a passitionate : determina
tion to have pretty things some day,
at any cost. . Since she has earned her
own money she has spent every cent
she can .scrape together on the most
frivolous kinds of clothes. Some peo
ple' think 'it'is strange iri-view of Iter'
training. Myself, I think that with
her intense disposition, it is the result
to be expected.
Too much pressure may also- have
another bad effect The most capa
ble, masterful womanl know has a
daughter who Is painfully timid and
Indecisive. It is astonishing to - the
mother that the daughter does not
have more "go-ahead to- her." It is
not astonishing to anyone Who realizes
that - the pressure of one personality
has crushed the life out of the other.
In other words, this mother, instead
of making the tree grow in the right
direction, simply broke the twig.
The , birch will bend almost to the
ground without breaking under a pres
sure that would snap the pine off
short. The nature of a child is surely
no less complex and varying than that
of a tree. A wise mother will Know
not only the way in which she wants
to bend the twig, but the nature of
the wood with which she has to -deal.
' IT - II
Evening Ch at
BT ROTH CAMttRON.
P0&
BY
DKUSILLA'S RIVAL.
Drusilla had been absent from the play
room for several days and Bobby Jones
began to think she had gone away and
was having another adventure; ,.
"What happened to your asked Bobby,
anxious to hear all about it. -
"I'll begin' at the beginning,'' said
Drusilla. - "One day my little mother took
me in a carriage to visit a little friend of
hers and she had a mother cat and five
kittens.
"The kittens were very cunning and the
other little girl was playing -they were
dolls and dressed them in her doll's
clothes.
"I never felt so sorry for anyone in
my life as I did for her poor doll. It sat
in one corner of the playroom, all bent
over on one side, snipped of its clothes
and had to see those kittens being eared
for Instead of herself.
- "When wa came away the little glri
gave one of the kittens to my litUe
mother.
" 'It's lots of fun to have a live doll to
play with.' she said. 'Put on one of
Drnsllla's dresses and play the kitten Is
a doll.'
"Well. I didn't think anything would
nappen even taen. sty rattle
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; TBS POLITICAL MICROBE. . '
Some fortunes, beyond question, are
founded on politics, and the careers of
certain statesmen are" worthy of emula
tion for other than material prospecU.
But the fact remains that politics haa
many followers who would do better as
hewers of wood or trench diggers; who
would Uve more happily and do more
good tn the world by attending to their
own business than by striving to steer
the ship of state, or seeking ballots in
strange places. Many a man cornea
home at a late hour with a boose breath
and a belief that he is saving the na
tion, when the truth Is he is merely
wasting time and money and health and
ambition. And partial success may be
worse than utter failure; a taste of the '
pork pie of politics has unfitted many a
man for the arduous task of earning
his bread and other luxuries, and left
him a hanger-on whose presence
clutters up the pa.hway.
' This microbe of politics Is also a
sticker, and -he who to stricken has
trouble geting It out of his system.
Some otherwise able editors spoil per
fectly good papers by convening
them Into political organs, because
they happen to be bitten by this bug
and think their readers enjoy their
viewing with alarm and pointing with
pride. Aa a matter of fact, said'
readers are pained and gnash their
store cr home grown teeth at every
issue. . Perhaps people should take a
greater Interest in politics than they
do, but they don't and one of the rea
sons is the parade .of pests who have
made politics their life work. Atch
ison Globe.
ONE MORE SbSPECTEB SPORT?
; No other professional sport "has had
so much public favor in this country as
baseball. It has become "the American
game" for the reason principally, that
it has been clean. Since its reorgan
ization in the seventies the game has
been honestly played. Rowdyism has
been suppressed. Public betting and
other objectionable features of sport
ing life have been driven from the
grounds.
As a result of these conditions, base
ball has become a great money-making
pursuit. Its employes are not numer
ous, but reckoning from the amount of
capital invested it ranks high among
business enterprises. The comparatively
few men who control it are not inap
propriately known as "magnates," for
their wealth and power are everywhere
recognized. Being absolute masters of
the game in all its private and public
relations, when things go wrong their
responsibility is not to be questioned.
The blame therefore, for the outrage
ous extortions practiced vear after vnr
in connection with the world's cham
pionship series Is already fixed. It is
no excuse to plead surprise or helpless
ness. It is no defense to say that the
eagerness of the public defeats the
best-laid plans of the management. The
fact is that tickets to these games reg
ularly fall into the hands of specula-
ivib auu iu.i iitupie are as regular
ly gouged. The magnates can stop the
abuse If they are so inclined. Their
failure to do so has become a national .
scandal.
: . At regulaRrAtas, huirfi.rfhja,-
sands of dollars are paid every year
to Bee these games. Honestly, conducted,
owners and players acquire small for-
t,,Aa nulnlrlu n J I T , . I W
connivance or carelessness still other
hundreds of thousands of dollars are
gained by favorites, hangerson, middle
men or mere gamblers, it is certain
that the public is paying very dearly
for the privilege of being swindled.
Signs have not been wanting for some
time past that baseball is declining in
popularity. Its descent to the limbo of
suspected and rejected sports will be
more rapid hereafter if it is regularly
to close its seasons in a riot of nlnnder
and perfidy. New York World.
"What makes you keep saying you wish
Congress would adjourn ? asked the
statesman, a little resentfully. "Well." re
plied the big business man. "my reasons
are entirely selfish. You gentlemen mak
such Interesting speeches that I can't
hi'lp stopping to read them, and It takes
my mind . off my work." Washington
Star. '
MRS. EAWALKER
ried the kitten all the way home in her
arm1' a-nd when we wer ln the house '
she took me out of the carnage and nut '
me on the floor by a window, where there
ftooV heavy curU,,n tnt reached the,
"The neyt morning when the maid was
dusting the room she did not move the
curtain and there I waited exiting every
minute my little mother would cime f'r
SW" " c"m lnto he room, and
Bobby Jo.es what do you thlnkhe had?
in-fts nead 5 VynnX"
plavV?n" .i -iJ"' "' "tner
' wwui is nt. near ma with.
onclWe
fe ;V,h "r""n wat kitten's
e-u;ga ubcq 1TIT lit tie bath
SSa ,71". Ill" L ?er aanS
my cup, but the kitten jumped out of her
arms and fan. 1 do not know ill thai
happened the next few days. It ws!
took"., "Ml my uttto mow""
took that kitten in my carriage in th
?rk-.Adon't b-".ve I can ever .hl
uivtv sb. S Sail.. -
'"ow 1 you get back here'"' Uki
Bo.hby. when Drusilla stoppedsn-skKi
"Oh! my little mother briughTTe Tfci.
sra Rk..?gnA.
ana sue dropped it and bessn ner
wher.."h
SS :JXV -t nur tor
when she found ie! Wnat " W '
I. muJXJ"-- .. -aid:
tk.t . J.".' With than
1- h-i llT"r T"e her out rii'
run away. DruV ? "ea
the kitten will spoil Vour uiiil
took BM h, iu, ." .7 ner eye- siut
DraaiHA. lu m -
was wise enough not t . it "nd Bobby
arr.Uo.M -a- cUck Boh,?"'.
i .V: " met Bounri k... 71
i" ." piayroom that nisht. f-AV.ii.
114, by the MeCluTA Sil!rrtl-0Jrr'ght, ;
cate. Irtw ToTi, ,? Newspaper Byndi-
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