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I.' 1 . 11 ...
Now cometh the period when the
political "I-told-you-so's" will get in
their annoying work.
There is only one thing as big as a
man's first dollar, observes the Florida
Times-Union, and that is his last.
Maybe aome of the defeated candi
dates are getting a trifle of solace from
dreams .about "what might' have
been."
Italy must be just about in the
throes of nervous prostration, so long
has she been "on the verge" of get
ting into the war.
If Zapata is the big man in . the
Mexican peace convention the dele
gates to it must be on the order of
bandit-worshippers.
Following the lead of the other na
tions engaged in the war, the Ottoman
empire is particular to state that It
was forced into the fray.
Of course, Turkey had to indulge
in a whole lot of palavering before it
got into the war game with both feet.
That's Turkey's longest suit.
Among the many who did not take
the trouble to vote wJU be found some
of those who will be loudest in their
fault-finding over the 'results.
Supposin' we do have to "pay:dearly
for this fine weather later on," as the
goosebone weather prophets are pre
dicting! Isn't it worth whatever the
price may be?
Puck projects the suggestion that
"by keeping the motto 'In God We
Trust' on Its coinage, the United States
is risking an infringement of the
kaiser's pet copyright."
As far as the war news Is concerned
superlatives have lost - their force.
Once again is it reported that the
present fighting in northern France
and Belgium is the "fiercest" of the
waf.
' Nor will Kansans enjoy much of a
respite from the annoyance of politics.
The campaigns for the municipal elec
tions to be held in , the spring will
soon be under' way at full steam
ahead.
Nothing like' a war is needed ' to
bring suffering on a large scale to the
Chinese. Floods atend to that. An
other one of huge proportions has
taken its terrible toll from no less than
a million victims.
Prohibition forces haven't been
able to make much headway in Chi
cago, but the "waf tax" on beer will
close up more than 500 saloons there.
All of which will be of considerable
advantage to the neighborhoods
where they existed.
It would be interesting to know just
how many of the Kansas voters mark
ed their ballots "straight" for all of
the nominees of their respective par
ties. A safe guess would be that the
number was smaller than ever 'before
in the history of Kansas.
. Once more does the slowness of the
vote-counting in Kansas emphasise
the need of legislation which will per
mit the larger communities, at least,
to use voting macnines. xney use
them in the cities in many other states
waich are not held to." be nearly as
progressive as Kansas.
Cheer up! Don't be too downcast if
your pet candidates did not win.. Like
the weather, there is no such thing as
an election which can be entirely sat
isfactory to everybody. .. And the af
fairs of the state and Its counties will
run along in about the same old way
under the guidance o'f the candidates
who knocked down the. persimmons.
Indications are that Carranza will
soon' be the leader of another revolu
tlon in Mexico.: He has notified the
peace convention, which has deposed
him. that he will fight unless Villa Is
also reduced to the ranks. And Villa
has his army close enough to the scene
of the peace conference to make it
certain that nothing ' will be dona to
hni which is not to his liking.
THE REPTJBUCAN VICTORY.'
In a national -way. the returns from
the elections In the several . states are
open to but one Interpretation. The
Republican party has again come into
its own. Octoput it a trifle more ex
plicitly, , the people have tried the
Democratic party in the. balances and
found it wanting. As a matter of fact,
though, it is probable "that the . Demo
cratic party would hot have been given
a trial had it not been for, the division
in the Republican party that began some
five years ago with the crusade of the
Republican ."insurgents" in? congress.
This was responsible- for placing the
Democrat! in control or the house of
representatives during-the last half of
the Tatt administration. Tne came
the big. fight in the party for the con
trol f the national convention of 191Z,
that ended in the withdrawal of Colonel
Roosevelt from the party and his or
ganisation of the Bull Moose ; move
ment. Under fiis strenuous leadership,
the new party .waxed.; vigorous during
the campaign of that year,, and devel
oped sufficient strength, which it drew
almost entirely from the " Republican
party, to cause the latter's defeat and
give a. victory to the Democrats. This
victory ; was of the minority variety,
and could not possibly be construed as
a general endorsement by the people
of Democratic plans and policies. But
it put the Democrats in power at
Washington and gave them their long
looked for chance. And the voters yes
terday said rather emphatically that
they are not satisfied with the way the
Democrats have taken advantage of
their opportunities.
In so saying, they also sounder the
death-knell of the Progressive party. As
political wiseacres have been predicting,
it was but a flash in the political pan.
It was a disastrous one to .the Repub
lican party while "it enjoyed the vigor
of its youth. But the bulk of the Re
publicans who followed it into the field
of radicalism and also because of their
personal admiration and faith in Colo
nel Roosevelt, deserted it as enthusi
astically yesterday as they joined it
two years ago. In most of tne states,
full Progressive tickets were in tne
field both for state and congressional
offices. In several of them. New Tork
and Pennsylvania in particular, the
Progressive candidates had all the as
sistance that Colonel Roosevelt could
give them. . And yet in most of the ma
jor contests, the Republicans were able
to register most convincing victories.
notwithstanding the keen opposition of
the Bull Moosers as well as the Demo
crats. This makes the success of the
Republican party all the more signifi
cant, and-the rebuke of the Democratic
party all the more convincing.
While it seems probable that the
Democrats will continue in control of
both branches of congress, their ma
jority" in the senate will be a bare one.
and their present majority of 141 in the
house will be reduced to a scant 25 or
which is scarcely one of workable
proportions in an assembly of that size.
The instances are rare in the political
history of the Country when there has
been such an overturn at the polls and
specially in an "off year." It forecasts
an end to the rule of the Democratic
party in the nation when its four years'
term has expired. The Wilson admin
istration has not been a total failure.
Many important matters and questions
have been handled most admirably by
the president. But it is evident that
the voters have reached the conclusion
that the economic policies of the Demo
cratic party, which have so interfered
with the business of the country and
prostrated the finances of the govern
ment are not the kind of medicine that
the nation needs. -.-'
Mr. Carnegie is also finding out
through personal experience . what
happens to a man who tries to carry
water on both shoulders. When he
was . in. Scotland at the time that the
war began, he expressed the opinion
that Kaiser .Wilhelm was to blame for
it. But as soon as he reached this
country he issued another manifesto
to an almost opposite effect, and now
his dear friends at Dunfermline are
pelting his statue there with mud.
SOMBER DRESS IN WAR TIME.
The war has brought the textile,
toy and drug trades and agriculture in
tne unitea states race-to-race with a
number of serious, untried problems.
writes David F. St. Clair, in the Amer
ican Review of Reviews for Novem
ber, in an Interesting article on "Ger
man Dyes and American Clothes." It
has threatened to demoralize these
trades and agriculture to such an ex
tent that last month Mr. Herman A.
Metz, an extensive importer and deal
er in dyestuffs from Germany, headed
a syndicate of business men to charter
a vessel under the American flag to
bring dyestuffs, potash, drugs and
other much-needed German products
from Rotterdam to New Tork. This
is an enterprise that at best, Mr. Metz
admits, can only partially relieve
these sorely depressed trades, and
then only for a few weeks at a time,
for Germany is now operating her
dyestuff factories and potash mines
only on half time, and under the pro
tracted stress of war she may soon be
compelled to shut them down entirely.
Then what ? The people of the
United States may in another twelve'
or eighteen months have to dress in ;
cheap , logwood blacks, dull vegetable
blues, browns, yellows, and drabs, and
the unbleached whites of our grand
fathers and grandmothers for the
war-swept countries also furnish our
bleaching powders. To all women,
and to many .men, such would be one
of the" darkest prospects of the war,
for the new variety, delicacy, beauty
and fastness Ih shades of color in
dress have become one of the most
distinctive features of all fashion. Ev
ery season brings " scores of ' hew
shades of color into the market in-Its
effort to charm and win the eyes of
trade, and never has color In raiment,
and especially In woman's raiment,
become so human-, and personal as
now. But along with. Europe the war
may yet -garb us in the gomberness of
mourning, in sackcloth and ashes.
' Nearly all the dyestuffs now on the
market are made fro .1 benzol, a coal
tar product, With two transforma
tions bensol : becomes. aniline. Gey-:
many new supplies the United States
with 80 per cent of all the dyestuffs
it consumes.-, Last year we imported
$12,000,000 worth of. these dyestuffs.
over (8,000,000 coming from Germany
and the balance from Switzerland and
other countries. ' We, ourselves, manr
ufa'cture practically "'none. 'We Import
from Germany and; Austria- the raw
material for more than a dozen of our
twenty principal drugs. Three-fifths
of all our Christmas' toys come: from
the cities of Nuremberg and Sonne
berg. Every ton of potash and two
thirds of the sulphate of ammonia put
into the fertilizers that are used on
our farms come from Germany.
Journal Entries
Making laws Is much easier than en
forcing them.
He is also a. wise man who knows
when he's whipped.
A woman doesn't need to be pretty to
be fascinating.
If people only got what they deserve
any number wouldn't nave neariy so
much.
Tour character is self-made; you
reputation is the estimate others hold
of you. , '
J ay hawker Jots
Some women lose a lot of powder
without any Bhot, says the Gridley
Light, and then think 'it strange they
get no game.
Tom Thompson of the -Howard
Courant sends out this question: Did
you ever really know a case, of broken
heart which could not be and was not
mended a little later on?
Doc Robinson, the ' .Mage hobo of
Atchison, is sore. And the Atchison
Globe quotes him as giving this rea
son: The other day a rag and bone
dealer told me to get on his scales.
Speaking of class memorials,, says
the University Kansan, with the hor
rible water supply of Lawrence evi
dently in mind, a drinking fountain
without good water would be almost
as useful as a saddle without a horse.
Many a man. says the Arkansas
City Traveler, is planning to change
his chicken house into a garage and
believes it will be as cheap to keep a
car as it is a bunch of sour-faced old
hens who hate themselves so much
they despise to sit in the same nest
with themselves.
The past wet weather we have had
during the latter part of this week,
says the Stanton County Journal, re
minded one of the. "wee wet spell"
we had last year about this time and
our stockmen are afraid that the
present rain may persist long enough
to ruin the finest winter pasture we
have had for miles. Tea, and a hun
dred miles east the wheat farmers are
praying for the wet to keep on com
ing, and justly so. Now if you had
something . to say about making the
weather wouldn't it be a serious job
to please all? ' '
Related by the Emporia Gazette
Two boys went, out into a neighbor's
orchard to gather up a few apples.
Each had his own basket and each
tried to get the choicest fruit. The
taller , bov was able to make his se
lection from the tree While the short
er lad had to cull around among the
windfalls. As might have been ex
pected, the taller boy's fruit out
classed that of the. smaller and, after
the fashion of boys,, he sought to
mend his position so he ran to the
owner of the orchard and fairly
shouted, "Tom's apples are hand
picked." To which the orchardist re
plied, "Then he must have good fruit;
why didn't you pick a few?" Jimmie
replied rather shamefacedly.
couldn't reach 'em." Boys will, be
boys, won't they, yet we would want
to cash' in If we had to' live without
them.
Globe Sights
BT THE ATCKrSON OLOBB.
Tou know better more frequently than
you do better.
The rakeoff is the only sure section of
a game of. chance.
Any sort of endeavor Is labor under t
great strain to some people.
It isn't the town's fsult if you are shift
leas and don't do very well.
while a uniform doesn't make a man,
it makes him conspicuous.
To a man whose wife takes . htm to
church, Sunday is the longest day.
The one cent stamp is also noted for
carrying a lot of excess baggage. , ..
The woman a man marries will carry
him up or' down to her leveu
Men have many - narrow escapes, "but
sooner or later most of them get marred.
Jude Johnson is telling his friends that
he is too democratic to own an. automo
bile. Wouldn't' a football player beef if he
had to work that hard for three dollars
a day ! ''?'"'.'
The knowledge that you aren't as young
as you used to be Isn't particularly pow
erful. - ,
It is true that chewing tobacco will re
lieve toothache, "but a perfect lady should
consult a dentist instead.
A heathen finds considerable consolation
in the large number of church members
who have broken training.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago Xews.1
The less a man talks the more he says.
Success comes to the man who does not
fear failure. - .
Indigestion of the conscience Is usually
due to stolen sweets.
One kind of progressive is a man af
flicted with the speed erase.
Being kind to .a rich mother-in-law may
be a good Investment.
An old bachelor fears a baby more than
a woman fears a mouse.
Diulomacy is the art of getting what
you want without fighting for it.
How a woman does enjoy quarreling
with a man who Isn t quarrelsome. . -
A lot of trouble in tola world is due to
love and a lot more to friendship. ..
For every fault we find In our neigh
bor we overlook a dozen or more, in our
selves. Sometimes a man Is considered eccentric
because he attends strictly to his own
business. - "
Sometimes a man. has to be smart in
order to make enough money .to support
his grownup sons.
. If a mean man Is wise he will move out
of the neighborhood instead of trying to
ttvo H down.
Some men try to hide their light under a
bushel and some others try to make 4he
world believe they are the whole dynamo.,
On ike . Spar
BT ROT K. MOTJIJtON. '
JShVe OKI Times
I'm sick- of marching millions'
I tire At shot and" shell;
. I've read s much of carnage
I'nutoo.chock fun to tell. .
I'm sickened by the slaughter.
And, really, what I need
Is soma old-fashioned items
Uke.iJa folks used to read.
dear old Teddy.
t to read his done:
I'd. like 4o hear from experts '
I'd read of the ' boll weevil.
: The -Ijtansas locust, toe;
I'd even read of Dr. Cook,
. . Or ;n Cole Blease would do.
I've read till I'm disgusted.
Of war and "death and pain.
t Will some kind fairy bring ua
The good old times again?
Signs of the Times.
Senator Lodge is being spoken Of as a
candidate for the presidency on tha Be-
puDucan ticket, but, unfortunately, presi
dents with whiskers have gone out of
style. ,.''".'
When they find out that their battles
are attracting no attention, the Mexicans
may become discouraged and quit fight
ing. : ,.,;. '. ,. . -
But wait until the resorts begin to come
from northern Michigan concerning the
innocent! victims who are mistaken for
deer. ? -
Only -one China- has been proved by the
War thus far. and that is that Russia, if
she extends herself can whip Austria. -'
That comet showed -poor taste, putting
in an appearance during a great European
war. , -i
The golden rule of war is: . "Shoot oth
ers as they' would shoot you, and shoot
first." r
It is a dull year when some new sort
of tax for automobiles Is not Invented.
It seems"- as though a buy-a-codfish
movement should be inaugurated in Bos
ton.
Things to Think About.
'A dress coat can be Quickly transformed
into a Tuxedo by pinning the tails up in
side. Most of the treat men of the world
have had blue eyes,- says statistician. And
some of them have had black and blue
A Boston-. Chinaman has made $500,000
out of chop Buey. Well, there ought to
be a lot of money In chop suey for there
is a lot of everything else.
a gonaoia is a large animal which in
habits the waters of Italy, notably Venice.
It has a long-neck sticking up at one end
ana a long tall sticking up at the other.
in uueen Elizabeth s time every guest
at a dinner party 'brought his own spoon
ana took it home. - Now they take spoons
belonging to the hostess.
The souvenir teaspoon Is one of the
worst enemies of good "teeth. It is very
common to break off an incisor on Niag
ara Falls, the Sphinx of Egypt, or the
Chicago Masonic Temple.
Every family should keep a scrap book.
In it should be recorded' the various fam
ily scraps. ;
Evening Chat
BT RUTH CAMERON.
-' About Trees.
"He that plants trees loves others be
sides himself." '- .
The older I grow the more I like trees.
As a child, like ' most children,; I took
tnsesor,vaTranted.ti6i:.-bfg greea: things.
some conveniently arranged for climbing
and some unfortunately not.'" But as I
grew older I began to see them as beauti
ful creatures ofr nature's architecture.
Architecture as Someone has beautifully
said, is f rdsen music.. Treest then, are the
frozen music of nature. And in how many
keys and in ho many moods, is this
wonderful music nlaved!
We were discussing trees the other night
and the Author-man declaied that poplars
always made him feel homesick. Thence
we drifted to a general discussion of the
character of -different trees and found
them as individual as men and women.
Elms, for instance, are a town, rather
than an open country tree. They are the
door-yard tree,, par excellence. They be
long in the front yard, towering, stately
and faithful sentinels over the home, or
lifting their cool green arches above the
village street. ...
Oaks on the Contrary are not by nature
aomesticated trees. They are the trees
or tne xieias ana woods. They are rug
ged and independent. The very adjective
which by use' Immemorial has been at
tached to the oak, is indicative of its in
dependent nature, for we speak of the
siuray osk" as inevitably as
of the
statelv plm."
White birches, of course, avmbnlize
youth and virginity. In their slim.
straight whf... i. nt i . '
. .unuiu . IULII CAIUB1Q fJO.IC
green leafage, they have all the haunting,
happy, sad charm of youth. They are
always young, no matter how many years
old they may be. ' We speak of the "gracd
old oak," the "fine old elm." but never
of the 'old birch." Birches are gregarious
trees. They always grow in happy little
groups. One birch would not be halt so
beautiful. Like -Emerson, with his cap
tured maiden, we find their beauty's best
attire. "As woven still by .the snow white
choir."
To talk of the languorous charm of the
Palm tree is to be too obvious. The palm
is as inevitably, a symbol of - languor,
tropic sunshine, 'and all the charms of a
"lazy old land" as the birch is of' youth
and springtime. .Yet in this case, the as
sociation is one of location rather than of
the tree's individual character. Analyze
it. What could be less languorous than
the perfectly perpendicular trunk of the
palm, as leafless as a telephone pole, as
rigid as an old-fashioned New ngland con
science ana so smootn. so nara. so reeular.
inai one sometimes iooks eiose to be sure
it is not carved of rock or moulded of
concrete, but grown out of living wood?
No talk on the. Individuality of trees
would be complete without a word on the
most inenaiy. tne most isitnrui and most
generally beloved of trees. Tou bear , us
the finest fruit of the new world, and yet
it is not wholly for what you give, but
for what you are gnarled and knotty, but
hospitable . old apple tree that we love
you. Tou have a place in our hearts with
the old dog that helped bring us up.
Tou're not' just a tree, you are a person
ality. The children of this generation, bred in
apartments and in tenements lose many
things, and not the least Is that they will
have no dear old apple tree to cherish in
their gallery of memories.
1,11 1 'j
. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. -
IFrom the Philadelphia Record.
The cat comes back, which is more than
can be said of the kitty in a poker game.
Occasionally you meet a man whose
wife is almost as pretty as bfi typewriter.
' It isn't a question of mart "V any
doctor will tell. you, when U man
feels bad.
It doesn't take -footprints ba tM sands
of time to prove that some, f- -i are
going backward, , . ..
The fellow who wants the- e-'tfe w(U
quote the Bible to prove that U earth
was created for- man.
"I don't owe a thing ia the r" V re
claimed the rot-innate Man. , .
me an apology," retorted Debt.
Wigg "1 can't make out t l f
Biones. He's a paradox." W '
I've known him to pawn his v
have a good time."
Tommy "Pop, things grow m
they are contracted, don't the
my a pop "weu. my son, tnen
captions, xnere are oemsv tor
I iong'&r
I wan
A LOVE SONG.
Tour love Is like a blue, blue wave.
The little rainbows play la
Tour love is like a mountain cave :
.Cool: shadows darkly stay in- -
It thrills me like great gales at war.
It soothes like softest singing.
I bears me where dear rivers are. ,
with reeds and rushes swinging; :
Or out to pearly shores afar
Where temple bells are ringing.
Harriet Monroe, in Poetry Magazine.
PRh:uii:uv nuutP - . -
Blue as the Danube leaps the flame.
Sorcerer ftm mftiinL nnm-timn . .
Calling with tongues my name, my name;
.amors ox.om that thrill me througn.
Call of the boughs asway.-asway.
Call of the bending blades of wheat.
Drag of he stars away, away;
nere ana l witn answering xeei:
Dance with me. winds that rock the sea,
I am a wave across the deep;
Blow sweet amours and dandle me.
ru some glamourous cave, to sleep.
Dance with me. lines, lilies tall.
Purple and gold and white as milk;
Motion is life and rhythm is all;
v.ome ana caress me, hands ol aiiK.
Here to me, roses, roses red! "
.Pour me your fervid wine tonight;
Die of the girt, and leave me dead.
Ebbed with the music's last delight.
Fanny Hodges Newman. In The Smart
The EoenihS Story
At Catalpa Villa.
(By Clarissa Mackie.)
Catalpa Villa was the. shabbiest of
the long row of shabby suburban
bouses on the dusty street. A line of
dwarf poplars edged the sidewalks
where children played all day long,
and the wind quivered amonjc the
leaves as a slight breeze . wandered
down the neglected street.
In the front window of Catalpa
Villa was a black and gold . sign.
"Furnished Rooms to Rent," it read.
Felix Dare alighted from a car at
the corner and walked slowly down
the street, studying the little painted
signs over the doors. These signs
were misleading enough.
For instance. Greenlawn was quite
guiltless of grass in its grubby front
yara. Hope cottage bore a quite hope
less aspect and Rose Arbor bowed its
head beneath the weight of . a worm
infested rambler rose bush which had
long since -ceased to bloom. ,
- Then came Catalpa Villa, named
for the decrepit catalpa tree . that
graced Its little strip of ragged lawn.
Felix paused in front of Catalpa
Villa,, set down his bag and violin
case, and 'studied a ' little notebook.
Then resuming his burdens he went
up the flagged walk to the front door.
A flat-chested, grim-pawed woman
admitted him to a stuffy little hall.
"Mrs. Beals?" asked Felix pleasant
ly.
"That's my name," she replied sus
piciously.
Felix smiled.- "I met your son.
Daniel Beals, when I was in Chicago,
and he recommended his mother's
home as an excellent boarding place.
I was hoping you had a room for
me." He did not add that Dan Beals
was drinking himself to death In the
big city, and that Felix's coming- to
board in this shabby suburb - w
prompted by a vague feeling of pity
for Dan's mother.
"That's , another . matter." com
mented Mrs. Beals briskly. "It's the
first sensible thing I ever knew Dan
Beals to do in all his worthless life
But it's like his father keen at
hunting up work for me! I've got
a front room, bay window, new carpet
last winter, best bed you ever slept
on. Want to see it?"
"If you please!" Felix followed his
prospective . landlady up the narrow
Stairs. When they reached the top,
someone opened a lower door and a
sweet voice floated up.
"Mrs. Beals, you are wanted at the
telephone."
"I'm coming. Just you wait, Mr.
Dare, and I'll send the girl to show you
the room. It's three-fifty a week
without board; if you eat here It will
cost you eight altogether: Anna
belle!" Mrs. Beals ran down the stairs
with astonishing agility and ad
dressed the unseen Annabelle. "Go
upstairs and show that gentleman the
front room. He can come right in If
he wants to you can get it ready in
half an hour. Hurry now and don't
stand staring at me so impudently:
A door slammed after Mrs. Beats'
retreating form. Then light steps
sounded on the .stairs and presently a
girl joined Felix in the upper hall.
Felix stared at her. for Mrs. Beals
had the most amazingly pretty maid
servant in the world and she didn't
look a bit like a maid servant; she was
a lady from the smooth braids of her
coroneted hair to the soles of her neat
little black slippers. She wore a print
gown of blue and a spotless white
apron.
"Ton wished to look at a room?"
he asked haughtily.
- "I beg your pardon yes!" cried
Felix, passing a hand before his dased
eyes.
Annabelle led the way into a dingy
front bedroom that gave every evi
dence of being occupied, perhaps, be
tween the flittings of boarders, by
Mrs. Beals herself. The bed was care
lessly made, sundry middle-aged fem
inine garments graced the chairs, and
on the bureau was a griszled false
"front' whose rightful place was un
doubtedly atop of Mrs. Beals head.
"This is ttfe room," said the girl in
differently. "But but it is occupied." hesitated
Felix. .' "'
"Mrs. Beals has been sleeping here, ;
but it can be prepared for you within
an hour," replied Annabelle. .
"I hardly think." began Felix, and'
then he thought -of his promise to Dan
Beals Dan had been a i ewspaper re-
porter, and Felix had liked tne Bril
liant, dissolute youth; if in any way
he could help Dan by stopping with
Dan's mother he would have a try at.
it
I will bring my things up now."
he said to Annabelle. who was gather
ing up Mrs. Baals' garments. .
When Felix came Into the - room
with his bag and violin case the girl
uttered a little startled cry.
Tou play?" she asked quickly.
He smiled and nodded. "I am in
the orchestra of the Excelsior thea
tre." - -
Not not the new leader, Felix
Dare? she breathed eagerly.
"Tea," he answered in a surprised
tone. . : - .
- "But what are you doing here at
Catalpa Villa? Who would atop In
such ogly shabbiness unless It was.
absolutely necessary, and it cannot be
that With you! I have heard about
yon. and when t read that you were
going to give lessons to a pfilegd
few I I " The voice of the little
servant- broke.
"Tou, play? Tou?" he - asked
amasadl
8ha nodded sorrowfully. . "I
here from .Vermont to study- -I bad
a Sum of- moneytoA pay expenses
was obliged to break into it to pay
for aa illness, and I came at last to
board here then I not "behind with
my board and she Mrs. Beak seised
my violin, and I am working out what
I owe her. ' It is a weaxy task paying
old scores .and trying, to pay current
expenses," .
"Ton ooor child." said Felix simply.
"Tod have stopped tha lessons?" he
asked. . '. ?. . - -:1
"Long ago." ,v ; ?:" ;
"Who was your teacher?"' .
"Benzeet."
"Adolph Benseet? Then you must
possess unusual talent or ha would
not have bothered! I am sorry. Miss
Annabelle."
Thank you," she said gratefully,
and now. If you will excuse me. Mr.
Dare, I will return, to my duties and
prepare your room. My work has al
ways been below stairs, in the kitchen.
but the chambermaid left this morn
ing and we are short of help and I
must hasten we have supper at 6."
As Felix left the room Mrs. Beals
poked her head through the balusters.
"Tou, Annabelle!". ' she called.
"Have that room ready in 'half an
hour the man has brought the fish
for supper and the table isn't even
set!" She nodded sourly at the new
boarder as he came down the stairs.
"Lazy thing, that girl." she muttered
for his benefit. "Doesn't want to do
a thing except fiddle, fiddle, all day
long! . Fiddling don't earn good mon
ey, so say I!" ,
"I'm sorry to hear you say that.
Mrs.. Beals," returned Felix mischiev
ously. "I forgot to tell you that I'm
in the Excelsior orchestra. -
Mrs. Beals eyed him suspiciously.
"I don't know as I mentioned that
I'd like my board in advance."
"Certainly." agreed Felix, drawing
out nts pocketbook.
Mrs. Beals greedily counted out the
money and when the transaction was
concluded, she asked: "My stepson
didnt-send me any money by-you,
did her
Felix smiled. He could not tell her
that Dan Beals owed him $200. "So
Dan is not. your own son?" was all he
asked.
"I should hope not." she cried de
voutly. "I was a childless widder
when I married Dan's pa and that
noy nas been the plague of my Ufa.
ataxe yourseir free or the parlor, Mr.
Dare!" .
Felix threw himself In a chair in the
stuffy little room, in which each separate
article appeared to quarrel with the
other. If Mrs. Beals was not the own
mother of the unfortunate Dan, FeUx did
not. feel any responsibility concerning her
welfare. Mrs. Beals appeared to be fully
able to take care of herself. -
"One week ' will do me." sighed Felix
as he took out a . newspaper and began
to retd. But a face came between him
and-the printed page the wistful tac of
Annabelle. - . , . . .
"I wonder when she will have paid her
debt?" he mused.
men an odor of frying fish insinuated
itself through the house and the advent
of sundry tired and shabby looking men
and women, who found a home here after
a hard day's work in store or factory,
told h-m that Annabelle had left his room
ready for his occupancy and that she was
at her post of duty downstairs.
Fbur weeks passed and found Felix
Dare still an occupant of Mrs. Beals'
front room. While Annabelle, marveled
that an artist like Dare should be con
tent in that sordid atmosphere, she was
glad that he remained. Wonderful music
came from his room. Dreamy strains
wafted up to Annabelle's attic room, and
after awhile she learned to translate
their meaning. He was playing to her!
Felix Dare's , wooing, covered a period
of many weeks, but he did not give VerV
bal utterance to his love until one dav
after Annabelle had paid off her debt and
moved away.
Then he went to see her in her new
boarding place far from Catalpa Villa:
and in the stiff parlor of this new tem
porary home he told her the most won
derful story in this world.
The . following Sunday evening they
went for a trolley ride, and Felix stop
pe the car at a shabby street and led
Annabelle past Catalpa Villa.- The moon
was shining on the lonely catalpa tree,
on the hopelessness of Hope Cottage and
the brownhess of Greenlawn.
"Cataipha Villa is a beautiful spot,"
"Catalpa Villa is a beautiful spot."
beautiful in my sight, dear guess why?"
"Because we met theere and because
Love transforms all that is ugly and
sordid," whispered Annabelle. (Copy
right, 1914. by the McClure Newspaper
Syndicate.) ,
"Pa, what do they put water In stocks
for?" "To soak the Investors with, my
son." Boston Transcript.
BY
THE OLD DOG AND THE CHILD.
One day a man who had a dog that
was old turned him out into the road.
His little son asked him why he turned
him out. -
"He is old." replied the father, "and
he eats and he does nothing. If a thief
gets in he is too old to bite; his teeth
are gone and he is no use, so I have
turned him into the road. He will die
before long, anyway." : v ' -
The little, boy did not "i reply to his
father, but he thougt above it a great
deal, and in the night his father heard
him 'crying. He went, to the child and
asked: "What is the matter, -son?"
The boy sat up in bed and put his
arras around his father's neck. "I don't
want to turn you out in the road to die
when you art; old. father," said the lit
tlc boy. "and I don't want to be put in
Kansas Cowjnzzi )
LEAVING KANSAS. . . f
.: Sometimes a farmer wakes' up oa
a fertile Kansas Homestead asjd not
feeling very good he makes p his
mind to leave the old. home and wan
der out to some other land. Perhapa
he has been reading some real estate
circulars or railroad pamphlets and
has "caught the microbe, of wandering.
The farmer mopes around a day or
two or perhaps a week or so and then
he tells his wife of the promised land
away out across the hills or the prai
ries and at first the wife, with a wo
man's instinct, warns against the pro
posed move, but the old man insists,
and the woman yields. There la a
hasty sale of live stock and- farming
implements and perhapa tha house
hold goods and tha . Kansas farmer
takes his hard earned savings and
goes off to Idaho, Washington or Tex
as and his neighbors forget about him
for several years. One morning the
returning farmer is noticed back in
his old haunts looking for a small
farm to buy or rent. He has grown
wiser but" very much poorer. - This is
not a fancied picturee; if happens
Quite often. Haddam Clipper-Leader.
From Other Pens
PHILIPPINES SELF GOVERNMENT.
On the principle that what ia good
for the Philippines is bad for the
United States, the measure now in the
house of representatives, providing
for the further nationalisation of the
insular government and the independ
ence of the islands as soon as the nec
essary stability shall be assured is
most reprehensible, of course It any
further proof were necessary of the
utter vtciousness of the proposed law
it would be supplied by the enthusi
astic celebration by the Filipinos at
Manila of the first anniversary of
Governor Harrison's Installation. Gov
ernor Harrison's policy has been In
spired by the conviction that a trust
should be executed for the benefit of
the wards rather than of the trustee.
American carpet-baggers have been
superseded as fast as competent na
tive officials could be found,- with re
sultant economy and great satisfac
tion to the Filipinos. This Is bad for
the carpet-baggers, Who Identify
themselves with the United States, but
It seems to be good for the Philip-',
pines. Philadelphia Record. ',
: - GOLD IN THE WAR.
Both the Bank of England and the
Imperial Bank of Germany have con
tinuously . increased their holdings or
gold since the war began until in each
case their stocks of the metal have
become the largest ever known to
them. The German bank now holds
$111,000,000 more gold than at the out
break of the war; the British bank
holds $168,000,000 more. It is easier to
explain the gain of the British than
that of the German bank. England's
foreign trade is still unbroken, though
reduced by the war. The Bank of
England is having the benefit of the
large weekly shipments of gold from
South Africa. It has been gaining gold
on debt account from the United
States in shipments to Ottawa, which
are counted as In its own vaults. But
Germany has practically been cut off
from the outside world. Its bank can
not gain gold either from the foreign
trade, which has virtually' neen de
stroyed, or from foreign borrowings. It
has been presumed that the gold car-:
ried by the government In the famous
and mysterious war-chest of Spandau
has been transferred to the Relchs
bank, but as this sum Is not supposed
to exceed $60,000,000, against a fabled
sum of a billion or so, we have $51,
000,000 still to account for. Where did
the German bank get that sum? Ap
parently from the pockets of the Ger
man people, who have voluntarily
turned over their circulating gold coin
to the bank and accepted paper In
stead. It is not an impossible thing,
but it would be the first Instance on
record of a people desperately involved
in war who spontaneously and unani
mously refused to respond to . the
hoarding Instinct and emptied their
pockets and stockings and chimney
niches of the money which most seeks
hiding at such a - time. New Tork
World.
m ssssssssssssi
MRS. FAYmLKER
the road to die, either." And he began
to cry again.
His father tried to quiet him. "Tou
will not have to put me in the road to
die." he said. "What do you mean?"
"Why. yes. I shall," said the child.
"When you are old and cannot work I
shall have to turn you into the road to
die, just as you did poor old doggie.
Tou said he wasn't worth keeping snd
old.
"I thought when we were old we
were treated kindly and given a nice
easy chair, and our grandchildren were
kind to us, but now I find it is not so;
we are to be turned out into the road
to die, and I am very unhappy."
The father tried to quiet the child
and told him he would find the old dog
and bring him back. He saw what he
had done was a heartless and wicket?
thing, and he knew he was Justly pun
ished that his child should think tha'
would be the way to treat him when
he grew too old to work.
Tn the morning he started out to took
for the dog and found him under a
bush by the aide of the road, where he
uaa crawiea in out of the cola. He car
ried him borne and made a nice bed for
bim and gave him a good breakfast.
"Tou shall never want again as long
as you live." he said to the dog. patting
his head. "I believe it is more cruel to
turn out an old animal than a person.
I have indeed been a wicked man.'
: When the little boy saw the dog he
clapped his hands and danced for Joy.
"Oh! I am so happy." he told his
father. "I shall not have to turn you
out In the road when you grow old. but
Can. have you live with me where f can
take care of you. And if you are sick
I can wait on you. Then my children
will not turn me out. either, so I shall
not cry any .more; there is nothing to
worry About now. When 1 grow oU I
shall be cared for for."
His father told him It was wrong to
turn the old dog out into the road, and
he was sorry that he did It, and he
must always be kind to animals, as well
as people. (Copyright. 1M, by the Mc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate, Mew Tork
City.) -
Monday's story "Billy Pig and
New Cap." '.- , . , ; ,
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