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Publishers'
(Association.
It Is appropriate, at least, that the
Thaw case gets into the limelight
fcgaln with the approach of spring.
In all probability, the naval geniuses
tof the world are working overtime
these days In their effort to develop
some sort of -an efficient submarine
(destroyer.
Italy's recipe by which eh made
Turkey salute her flag should be
ought by President Wilson and Mr.
Bryan. It might come in handy on
some future occasion.
Villa's supply of loot must be run
ning low. Else why the desertion of
so many soldiers from his standards?
The Mexican patriot was never known
to leave an easy meal ticket. j
From present indications, .as the
Chicago Herald says, the supply of in
ternational law isn't anything like
equal to the demands being made on
it by the various combatants.
Fickle gentlemetvhad best beware,
warns the Cincinnati Times-Star. "As
Maine goes, so goes the nation." A
Maine Jury awarded a woman $1M,000
damages for breach of promise.
As Kansas plays true to her climatic
form. March temperatures and May
sunshine are the order for the second
week in February. And accounts will
probably be squared with some Feb
ruary winds in May.
Present indications are that Presi
dent Wilson's ship purchase bill will
founder in a senatorial aea of words.
The filibuster against it has been re
newed with increased Vigor.': And a
special session of congress seems in
evitable. Tf the news is true that German,
'Austrian and Hungarian bankers have
Joined hands in loaning Bulgaria $30,-
000.000, there can be little doubt of
the move that Bulgaria will make if
Rumania gets into the war on the
side of the Allies.
- According to the present variety of
unusually fine weather, ' Mr. Ground
hog did not see his shadow in these
parts on Candelmas 'Day. ; But it
wouldn't be safe to bet much money
that there will be no more severe
winter weather this year.
In asking Topeka to raise $200,000
of the $500,000 addition that is being
ought for its endowment fund, Wash
burn college is making only a modest
request. Washburn college is of im
mense material advantage to Topeka
and all of its business interests.
Topekans, at any rate, are almost
sure to look with favor on the legisla
tive proposal to establish a state po
lice force to cope with burglars and
thieves. They have it brought home
to them frequently that the Topeka
police force is an utterly useless ap
pendage in this most important par
ticular. John D. Rockefeller at least prac
tices his constant preachments to oth
ers to save their pennies. He took the
pains to collect the witness fees due
him for appearing before the Indus
trial Relations Commission. They
amounted to $5, which will buy quite
a number of golf balls, the oil mag
nate's favorite fruit.
Should the legislature look with
favor on Representative Pierce's bill
to impose a state license of $300 an
nually on each moving picture house,
there wouldn't be so many of them
that would be able to survive the blow.
Certainly it would n.ean the death of
the 5 -cent picture show, that is such
a boon in the amusement line for the
poor folk.
Germany has no intention of sink
ing any of the neutral ships that may
have occasion to enter the naval war
rone around the British Isles on pur
pose. This is her explanation of her
recent proclamation in the premises.
But accidents will happen, Germany
is also careful to point out. And the
neutral ships that must sail these
waters will probably enter them with
fear and trembling. Being sunk by
accident will be just as disastrous to
a ship as though the sinking were intentional.
NIGHT AIR HARMLESS.
Breathe all the fresh air you can
get, night and day. That's what fresh
air Is for. The fearsome legend about
the baleful influence of "night air"
is only another of the carefully nursed
insanitary bequests from our ances
tors, according to Senior Surgeon
Banks of the United States public
health service.
Whence this superstition arose may
only be surmised. Perhaps it Is a sur
vival of the primeval cult of Sun wor
ship, which led the ancients to class
ify anything outside the sphere of so
lar influence as baneful. , Our fore
bears were wont to caution their off
spring to "be careful about the night
air" or children were ordered to "come
In out of the night air." It Is perhaps
fortunate for the children living in
the Arctic circle, where the nights are
six months long, that the Esquimaux
mothers do not entertain this crude
notion about night air, else their pro
geny would spend half the year in
doors. This Idea is generally prevalent and
even one of our well-known flowers is
loaded down with the horrible name
of "deadly nightshade" as a sort of
verbal relic of this old notion. The
low-lying mist or fog that sometimes
gathers about the surface of the earth
under certain atmospheric conditions,
after sunset, was held, is held, to be
"miasmatic" and pregnant with lethal
possibilities. This is worthy of all
the respect that should be put to any
hoary superstition, but its place is
In the specimen Jars of an archaeolo
gical museum, not tn the show room
of modern intelligent life.
The night air, minus the sun, is no
different from the atmosphere of a
sunless day. The atmospheric enve
lope of the earth does not change
from benign to malign in the twink
ling of an eye after sundown. It is
still composed of oxygen, nitrogen,, ar
gon and carbon dioxide In the normal
proportions for the given locality.
The open air treatment of tuberculo
sis and its kindred allies had first to
combat this venerable Jargon about
the dsadliness of night air, and only
the remarkable results of this hygienic
aid to its cure brought the supersti
tious to a realisation of the silliness of
their ingrained noctoyhobia.
This generation has witnessed the
emancipation of hu-nan beings in re
spect to the value of fresh air, wheth
er In bulk or in smaller "drafts."
From being a people immersed in
hermetically sealed rooms at night.
breathing our own bodily exhalations
over and over again, a constantly in
creasing number of persons are sleep
ing in the open, or at least with open
windows, summer and winter, to their
great benefit. In the morning they
are refreshed with the pure oxygen
of the air breathed during sleep, not
"stewed" nor "seedy" after ei-ht hours
spent in respiring and re-respiring
second-hand and shop-worn air in a
closed bedroom.
, A story from the trenches in France
is that a soldier; wrote home to his
wife to open her windows at night as
he had found that the night air
"didn't hurt one bit." That is the ex
perience of all the advocates of this
sensible custom once tried the old
custom of sealing one's self in an' air
tight bedroom is never renewed. Dis
eases which involve the lungs can usu
ally be traced to their beginning in
poorly ventilated sleeping apartments,
inside rooms that do not have a share
of the atmosphere. Nothing can live
well or long without oxygen in the
air, and it was given to us for breath
ing, night and day, not to be taken
sparingly, as if it were a dangerous po
tion. Some people are actually afraid
of ordinary, common air.
Those emancipated persons who
open their windows at ni-rht will tell
you, unanimously, that they cannot
breathe in a chamber unless the win
dow is raised, their sense of comfort
and vigor demands the life giving
qualities of fresh air. No greater pro
phylactic advice can be promulgated
than to breathe all the fresh atmos
pheric air you can get, night and day.
There appears to be much merit in
the general principles of Senator Bow
man's bill which extends the field of
operations of the building and loan
associations to the rural districts. If
some such door is opened that will
permit a man to acquire a farm un
der a long term loan of the easy pay
ment variety, not only would the
growing evil of tenant farming
likely be checked, but it is also
probable that the back to the farm
movement would be given added Im
petus. And more farmers is one of
ine tnmgs that Kansas and almost
every other section of the country
sorely needs.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.
The announcement made by Charles
E. Adams, president of the Cleveland
Hardware Co., in a recent address to
the members of the Metal Trades
Superintendents' and Foremen's club
of Cleveland, that his company e
pects to add a plan of unemployment
insurance to the other forms of insur
ance now in force at the progressive
plant of that concern marks a depar
ture which will attract widespread in
terest among manufacturers of the
country, as the Iron Trade Review
says.
Mr. Adams is chairman of the citi
zens- committee of Cleveland which is
conducting a campaign to raise $100,
ouu to provide employment on the
public works of the city for worthy
men who are now idle, and while en
gaged in this laudable task, Mr. Ad
ams conceived the idea of providing
unemployment Insurance for the men
in his own plant. He did a little fig
uring ana became convinced that If
every man should contribute a cent a
day, while employed, to an unemploy
ment iuna, tne amount would be
ample to pay every unemployed, man
of the company $1 per day through
out the period of his unemploymen ,
Details are to be worked out. but the
plan promises to have wide popularity
and to add greatly to the efficiency of
employees. A man who ia not wor-
ried about the danger at being thrown
out of employment will do much bet
ter work than-one who is , constantly
harassed by - fear, of being; unable to
provide for his family. The assurance
that he will receive at least $1 a day,
no matter what happens in the Indus
trial world, will contribute greatly to
his contentment. 5 -
Journal Entries
People who are wrapped up in
themselves are likely to be cold.
,
Some men. appear to be willing to
stay at the bottom of the heap.
The man who doesn't laugh at his
own stories is also something of a
rarity.
.
It's always easy to say nice things
about folk with whom you are not
very well acquainted.
There is little consolation in the
possibility that somebody else may
profit by your mistakes.
J ay hawker Jots
Insistence comes from the Yates
Center News that the man who talks
most and loudest about a square deal
Is slowest to give It.
Whatever other troubles the bash
ful young man may have, the Kanap
olia Journal insists that he never be
comes engaged to two girls at the
same time.
Forecasting the death of the Pro
gressive party after the next election,
the Alma Enterprise offers a reward
of a six months' subscription to any
one who will correctly guess the name
of the next new party that will be
started by the reformers.
A town without a band is like a for
est without a bird, declares the Ander
son News; there seems something
wanting in either case, and a tot of
people look at both in the same way.
They have been taught that the Lord
feeds the birds and they think he will
do the same with the band.
This may be a new story, suggests
the Downs News: A man who carried
accident Insurance was kicked by a
mule and duly made application to
his company for the accident benefit.
The" company refused to pay the claim
on the ground that it was not an acci
dent. They said the mule kicked him
on purpose.
F. L. Vandegrift, dean of the Kan
sas newspaper fraternity, commends
Sabetha's generosity in buying a
wooden leg for Bill Dean, says the
Sabetha Herald, and it continues: Mr.
Vandegrift traveles everywhere in the
United States as editor of a magazine
called "Earth." He says every man
who has a wooden leg has an uncon
trollable desire to fraternise with
other men who have wooden legs.
Once when he was sitting in a park
at Las Vegas four men, strangers' to
one another, entered. All had wooden
legs. They got together and In five
minutes were trying on one another's
legs. Two of them traded. A man
he met had all the battles he had
fought painted on his wooden leg.
Another painted his wooden leg in
deep mourning when his wife died A
friend of his uses, his cork -leg. as a
life preserver when bathing, another
utilises his as a propellor. - A vain
man he met had his wooden leg tat
tooed. Ih San Francisco a wooden leg
ged friend showed Mr. Vandegrift a
national magazine published in the
interests of wooden legs, called "The
Wooden Leg." By means of this pub
lication men all over the world traded
wooden legs, by paying;' for want ads
in it. Mr. Vandegrift once knew a
man who had seven wooden legs, one
of them for Sunday.
Globe Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.
About all some men make is deals.
Some people like rag time while
others appreciate music.
A certain amount of doubt is a
good thing to have around.
As a general thing, an economical
man has an extravagant wife.
While the general supply is large,
newspaper probably gets the most
advice.
It may have occurred to you that
too many musicians try to look the
part.
A tramp does considerable traveling
without getting anywhere in par
ticular.
Every once in a while a man is met
who is so proud of his humility he is
conceited.
It also helps some that a woman's
reputation for beauty doesn't depend
on her feet.
It isn't the worrying you do for
other people that is likely to make
you Pine Away.
So far as available information goes.
no man ever complained that his light
bill was too low.
There is no sense to superstition.
but you may have other fool notions
which are worse.
How a man who never handles
dishes, except when he eats, hates to
see one broken in washing!
Ab Adkins says he wjuld like to
have all the money that is wasted in
town, except what he wastes.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is generally the poorest workman
who feels he is too good for his job.
The people who laugh till their sides
ache take pains even with their mirth.
With some people honesty is the
best policy, when everything else fails.
Among the things that only come
once in a lifetime are youth and old
age.
Only a fool would allow his daz
zling prospects to make him blind to
ms own Interests.
To make a mountain out of a mole
hill, sometimes all that is necessary is
to put up a bluff.
When a fellow is on his uppers he
feels that the world has played a low
down trick on him.
You never can tell. Many a man
boasts of a pull who has never been
able to get in the push.
Wigg "I wish I could feel sure of
never being disappointed in love."
Wagg "That's easy. Marry for mon
ey." She "You must admit that a wom
an generally gains her point." He
"Yes, until she tries to sharpen a pen
cil." Tommy "Pop, what is a pessi
mist?" Tommy's Pop "A pessimist,
my son, is a fellow who is already
worrying about how hot it is going to
be next summer."
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY HOTTC atOTJLTON.-
The Congressman.
In former years the congressman
Cared for his country's needs .
By sending out to common folk
Some fancy garden seeds.
He loafed about in Washington
And had a bully time;
But now, the way they're treating
him
Is nothing but of crime.'
No longer' -does he pose and strut
And talk In language' grand.
The good old days have passed away.
He's working; understand.
That teacher from New Jersey has ,
Him walking chalk for fair;
And when the whistle blows each day
The statesman must be there.
Vacations have gone out of style,
He's busy with his books.
The time has passed when congress
men i
Could get bv on their looks.
The period is almost here.
We re verv much afraid. .
When congressmen will have .to earn
At least half what they're paid.
The Duck. '
A little schoolgirl in Michigan has
written the following essay on the
duck: v!!
"the duck is a low heavy set bird
he is a mighty poor singer having a
coarse- voice caused by getting so
many frogs in his neck he like the
water and carries a toy baloon in his
stomach to keep from sinking the
Duck has only two legs and tlyjy are
set so far back on his running gears
by nature that they come pretty near
missing his body some ducks when
they get big -curls on their tails are
called drakes and don't have to set or
hatch but just loaf and go swimming
and eat everything in sight if I were
to be a duck I would rather be a drake
there toes are set close together the
web skin put them in a por way of
scrating but they have a wide bill they
use it ror a spade they walk like a
drunken man they bounce and bump a
bout rrom side t side if you scare
them they will flap there wing and
try to make a pass aj singing."
It's a Mortal Cinch.
That the fellow who calls you up at
2 a. m. on the telephone by mistake.
ia going to call you down. He is going
to say: "wnat? Ain't this six-eleven
sixty-six? . Well, why in blazes ain't
It?" t
That the pie that comes home from
the grocery is going to have a crack
ed top and part of the edge peeled
orr.
That the telephone is going to be
busy for half an hour when you want
to get your wife in a hurry.
That the fellow is going to marry
the girl before you get to the end of
the book.
That the good things on the quick
lunch bill of fare are going to be gone
before you get there.
That your automobile is froing to
balk just as soon as you pick up some
one to whom you have been praising
your car all the year.
That the lady with the large hat
will get peevish at you when she runs
into you and twists it out of shape.
The Correspondence School.
A young man connected with our
office was Deimdinaj feverishly on his
typewriter. He- wW exuberant-
spirits and highly excited. We asked
him what he was doing-and. he said
he was writing his correspondence
school yell. There was nohody to yell
it with so all of the members sit down
and -write it at the same hour each
evening. Here is the yell: --
"Pooh-pooh. Harvard; 1
Pooh-pooh, Yale! ,
All I know.
I learned by mail."
Evening Chat
BY RUTH CAMERON.
Loyalty That Isn't Loyalty.
To live in Rome and refuse to do as
the Romans do may be excusable un
der some circumstances. 4 But to live
in Rome and talk about nothing but
the superiority of Greece or Sparta
well I cannot think offhand of any cir
cumstances which would Justify that.
And yet how many people have no
more tact or kindliness than to do it!
An easterner goes west. Instead of
opening his mind and heart to take In
all he can of the atmosphere of the
new country from those he meets, he
antagonizes them by talking constantly
of how much better . we do these
things in the east. Nor is the western
er inclined to be any more humble. He
doesn't see how the easterner can
stand being cooped up in such small
spaces. He thinks eastern manners
are cool, he depreciates eastern hos
pitality. "Come west," he says, "and
we'll show you a . real country."
The City Girl and the Country GlrL
The city girl goes to visit her coun
try friend. If one were to Judge by
her willingness to prolong her stay.
she is having a pretty good time,- yet
she cannot refrain from constantly as
serting the superiority of the city in
one way or another. She doesn't see
how the country girl gets along with
out the theater. "And how hard it
must be not to have any shops handy.
Of course you can buy a supply of
things when you corn to the city, but
how can you ever tell what you are
going to want for the next three
months. Why I often run in town
two or three times a week."
When she finds that the library is
only open once a week, she is greatly
amused. "Isn't that funny. Why I
supposed all libraries were open every
day. Ours is open evenings and Sun
days, too,"
Doubtless the country girl who
reads this thinks, "Well that's only the
bad breeding to be expected from the
city girl. That's the way they always
act." Wait a bit, country girl. Try
the coat on before you make so sure it
wouldn't fit you. You see I know one
of your number who visited in the city
and did just the same thing.
Jingoism and Patriotism.
To be loyal to one's home Is both
natural and admirable, but need that
loyalty be disagreeably assertive? Is
such assertion really loyalty? Isn't It
more an uneasy desire to impress
one's superiority on others?
Loyalty Is deeper and calmer. It Is
ready to give a good account of Its
own when asked. It is quick to spring
up in defense of its own if its own is
attacked, but it is never aggressive
and disagreeable.
There Is the-same difference be
tween this aggressive assertion of the
superiority of one's home and a nat
ural loyalty to it that there is between
jingoism and patriotism.
Nobody loves a jingo.
Evervbodv loves a patriot
When in Rome, love your Greece or
your .Sparta all you want, out don't
brag about it-
Twenty bad men In' the bar on mtrht.
Each one snoring hia foot on the TasT;
Noorf of them sober and most of them
turht
Every one cussing- to kick op -a fight,'-'
Each one a dcril-aad avinrlnv hi tall -
Most of them dead when the scrap was
Nobody knew how the row began! '
A squally day and a celluloid boat, -
umHKa on a river or gasoline ;
As freakv a craft aa waa ever afloat.
The captain swore In his hasky throat.
t nu ow nreoox next lo aer maga
zine" He lighted his pipe and tossed his match
Now how could the conflagration catch?
Generals, admirals, emperors, kings.
au Danes xrom toe craaie irainea to
kill:
Davids swinging Goliath slings.
navies ruieo. wicn eagle nun,
Nations of armies, life a drill.
Courtiers canning in wild excuse
What a su n rise when the war broke looas!
Edmnnd Vance Cook, In Manser's Maga-
suits. .
A Handsome Man.
(By John Darling.)
Light gradually dawned upon the
darkness of the wounded soldier's
mind. With a vague consciousness
he looked about and his eyes , felt
upon the last person in the world
whom he expected to see Marian
Hamilton. A fleeting smile crossed
bis lips and lit up his eyes for a mo
ment and then sleep enveloped him
once more.
Hours afterward when he awoke
again he looked in vain, for the face
of the girt He was very weak from
the long ilbness since he had been
carried from the battlefield, and the
constant watching of the door for a
sight of Marian fretted htm and re
tarded his recovery.
"Where is she?" he asked at last
of one of the nurses who came to
minister to him.
"The the nurse who stood by my
bedside when I first came to life
Marian Hamilton." It was a long
speech for him and he was visibly
weakened.
"You knew her? She was called
home to America suddenly," the nurse
told him.
The soldier sighed. "Then it's all
over after ali," he whispered. "Some
thing her face, perhaps, had given
me hope."
"Of course it had," replied the
nurse cheerily. "You're getting bet
ter you have cause to hope;"
The patient made a feeble gesture.
"Ah I know I'm getting better. It
wasn't that hope it " But lie
could get no further. The nurse bade
him try to sleep. '
Marian Hamilton had met John
Broadfoot in Washington while that
young man had been attached to the
British embassy. He had been no
ticeable even in Washington society
because or his handsome face and
splendid carriage. His manners, too,
were charming and he was a much
sought after guest at social functions.
From the moment that he be he-id
Marian he had loved her. And he
was not long in telling her of his
feeling. Marian had been' very kind
but very sorry she could not marry
him. She had always said she could
not be happy with a really handsome
man and she had always said she
hoped she, would not fall in love with
iroue. duo - nicuKnveu ner uwn wetut-
nces a tendency to jealousy. - '
And It was not until John Broad-
foot was called back to his own coun
try to server his colors that the girl
realized that, in spite of herself, she
loved him. She had bade him a hasty
good-bye and there had been no time
for further explanation.
Following his departure she evaded
society; she was not happy. And
when an opportunity came to enlist
herself for service in the Red Cross
ranks she cheerfully took up the pre
liminary work in Washington. Later,
when a girl chum decided to go on. to
the scenes of battle in Europe she
begged leave of her parents to ac
company her. -
Therefore, it was not so strange
that she should one day find her old
lover, John Broadfoot, among the
wounded soldiers under her care. His
wounds had been so severe that there
had been little hope of his recovery
and she had lingered day and night
at the side of his cot so that she
might be near him when he regained
consciousness. And she - had been
there only to receive that fleeting
recognition and then to have him
sink back again into the darkness.
Strangest of all, followed the cable
calling her to Washington. She had
only time to leave a, message with
the girl with whom she had come
across the ocean.
That message conveyed to John
Broadfoot the hope that , if he still
cared to tell ber a story she would
listen. But the wounded soldier had
not yet received the message and he
looked forward to the time when he
could rejoin his regiment and fight
at the front. He did not know that
his wounds would keep him from be
ing eligible for battle for months to
come.
"I've found Miss Hamilton's friend,
Mary Sprague, who says she has a
word to whisper in your ear." the
nurse said to him one morning when
he seemed brighter and stronger.
"Will you see her?"
"Will a thirsty man drink?" he
asked her. smilingly.
And almost as he said the words
Mary Sprague appeared at the side of
his cot. "John Broadfoot you -know
me now?" she said, taking his thin,
white hand.
"Now and always, I hope," he said
with a touch of his old time chivalry.
"But it's a long way from Wash
ington. IT. S. A., isn't it?"
Broadfoot nodded against his pil
low. Then he seemed to wait for the
message. It was so- much a waste
of time to talk of anything else when
he was obsessed with the desire to
know why Marian had been beside
him when he came to life.
"Marian was with me," Mary
Sprague began.
"I yes, I remember seeing her
standing here," the patient said.
"She and I joined the Red Cross to
gether and she was suddenly called
home. Her mother was' ill. She
told me to tell you that " Mary
Sprague hesitated "that there was
some story you wanted to tell her
that that she would be interested in
The wounded man searched the
face of the nurse. "Marian told you
to tell me that?" he asked, unbeliev
ingly. "She told me that as she left to
catch the steamer back to America,
Mary Sprague repeated.
John Broadfoot was silent for a
few minutes. - The other nurse had
disappeared.
"Could you would you let me
write a cable message for her and
would you aend it for me?" he asked,
with almost childish appeal in his
volcev -
Mary got him pencil and paper.
The Evening Story
Then she left him while he composed
ms message." ,-
When the cable letter' waa finished
it said to Marian Hamilton: "Will
you have me now? I am no longer
the handsome man you refused. ' My
nose is flattened and turned ud like
that of Socrates; I've lost a finger. Is
tnat enougn? . The battle did it, but
if it gives me you Pm happy.".
was an extravagant message, but
fit meant much to the wounded man,
ana when he received a reply to it
that made him happier than he had
ever been in his life he took a won
derful ' turn toward health and sur
prised the nurses and doctors who
were attending him.:
When be left the hosnital It was
with the promise to Mary Sprague
that he would bring his bride back
to help with the splendid work that
she had been pursuing and that he
would help in every capacity in
which he would be permitted to help.
t-jopyrurnt. 1915. bv the McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
Ten Dollars a Hang.
There, are 100,000,000 children in
China under 10 years of age. 'One
wonders how there are so many re
maining, for multitudes of children
die off through exposure, ill care,
starvation and disease. Hundreds of
thousands of these children live in the
Chinese sampans, which ply the rivers
and throng the water fronts of the
great cities. Por generations these
bjatmen knew no other home than
these boats. In case of babies, a rope
is attached under their arms and if
they slip over this side of the sampan
inio me water tney are Ilshed out the
best way possible. But life is nlentv
and cheap in China. "How much
tnen is a man better than a sheep?"
Not much better in China. A friend
of mine, a Brooklyn judge, who ar
rived late- at the daily public execu
tion in Canton, and who could only
stay for the day, was told that for
io they would secure a special victim
to satisfy the American's curiosity.
And they proceeded to find a man
who tor the sake of his family was
willing to barter his life for $10. Of
course, he got the $10 and his life.
Christian Herald.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
If a man lends his influence he
rare gets U back.
He has a treacherous servant who
serves only himself.
The more dollars you get together
the louder they talk.
The man who is unable to bear mis
fortune is truly unfortunate.
A genius is a man who knows when
to keep his face closed.
Faultless people never go around
pointing out the faults of others.
And sometimes Dame Nature writes
a letter of credit upon a man's face.
The average man shows up all right
on the surface, but few can stand
probing.
A small boys' idea of heaven is a
place where he can always have a sec
ond piece of pie.
And sometimes' a man is misunder
stood because there is nothing in him
worth investigating.
It is all right for a man to know
himself, but many a man, if wise,
would not boast of the acquaintance.
No matter how many cook books
the bride owns, she keeps right on
cooking things the way mother taught
her. - ' ,
; The marl who would retain the gooWl
will of his friends should remember
that there are a great many things
he must not forget to forget.
This would be a delightful old world
to sojourn in were it not for the fact
that too many people are always try
ing their best to do their worst.
Y
MATTHEW'S ADVENTURES.
Fart H.
If Matthew had done just as he
wanted to do, he would have turned
and called to the dog to follow him.
. But Matthew, despite his lack of
bringing up. was a pretty honest boy,
and so he trudged on alone.
"I don' know whar dis road leads,"
he said to himself, "but I guess it's
long enough for one day's walking."
All the afternoon tie walked along,
keening on the shady side of the road
and occasionally sitting down to rest.
It was at one of these times when he
was resting a bit that he heard the
neigh of a horse from beyond the
fence of a neighboring field.
"Surapln de matter wld dat hoss,"
said Matthew; "he done hurt hisself
else he wouldn't make dat kin' of a
noise. Guess I'll so see ef I can do
sumpin to help him."
And over the fence Matthew Jumped
and ran to the assistance of the
'-Skn, sittr .Airi MTTwm
neighing horse.
"Yo hurt yo'self V questioned Mat
thew as he came up to the animal,
and he could almost see the horse nod
his head as he recognized the fact
that a friend was coming to help
him. "What fo you put yo foot tn
thar?" questioned Matthew, as he saw
that the horse had stuck his foot
through the barbed wire fence, and
then- when he attempted to pull it
back had caught it one one of the
sharp wires.' '
"Now. yo' hoi' till." said Matthew,
"an 111 help yo' out ob yo' trouble."
He took hold of the foot that was
caught on the wire and, pushing it
- f:
Kansas Cormhtni
' THE FARMER'S SIDE. " J''"!
Hunters who regard as "crasy and
unreasonable" those farmers who re
fuse permission to hunt over their
lands, are Invited to hear the farmers ,
side of the case. It may .have the
effect of changing their viewpoint.
Experience has taught the farmers
that hunting is a menace to their live
stock. "Even in cases where the hunt- .
era are exceptionally careful, the acW
cidental wounding of horses and cows
is at times unavoidable. This is par
ticularly true on farms where there is i
an abundance ox ciover. wrairauu
animals frequently seek shelter or for
age where the game is maing ana
their presence is not observed until
one of them receives a charge of shot
intended for a bird or rabbit. It is
possible, of course, to avoid this class
of accidents by having the hunter lo
cate the horses and cattle before he
begins stalking for game, but many
farmers feel that this Is an imposition
on their time. - Moreover, they do not
care to discriminate. If they permit
one hunter, known to be carerui, ' to
hunt over their lands, they know that
they will have requests from others
who are not so careful. To avoid the
embarrassment of explaining to the
latter why they are not permitted to
hunt, they make a rule against all
hunting on their places. Then. too.
there is the farmer who has set his
face against all destruction of wild -game.
His feeling on the .subject is
sometimes purely sentimental, but in
most instances it is based on .more
substantial grounds. He believes that
the birds especially are necessary to
his farm from the economical stand
point and he wants to conserve them.
He probably has no objection to the
shooting of rabbits, but he does not
want to take chances on Having tne
birds killed and 'so he closes his gates
to every one carrying a gun. Shaw
nee Chief. :
WHAT $10 WILL DO.
A sort of paradox is the fact that .
thousands of people who make no ef
fort to save a dollar when times are
highly prosperous will develop and
practice economy when work and op- :
portunity are less plentiful. The best
way, of course, is to try and save at
least a little all the time, putting by
a larger amount when earnings are at
their height. As a nation we are not
taught that economy which makes
France the banker of the world, and
whose . accumulations come not from
vast exports of natural resources, but
from the combined small savings, con
sistently continued year after year, by
the French people as a whole. If the
people of this country Would ' save
during the year 1815 an average of
$10 per capita the grand total at the '
end of the first IS months would be
the magnificent sum of $1,000,000,000.
The French save, partly because it .
has become hereditary, and chiefly
because the children are brought up
that way and are taught the dignity
of accumulation. We, on the contrary,
in a spirit of false pride, are inclined
to scorn the necessity of saving, as
though it were something of which to
be ashamed. If our own present ex
periences shall teach us thrift, it will
bea strengtnening or a great national
weakness. 'Popular Mechanics.
"The canses of war are sometimes ,
strangely trivial," remarked the student
of history. "Yes." replied Miss Cayenne.
I know a once peaceful family that has
lined up in factiona over the question of
whether it Is proper to say 'tomabtos' or
to-may-tos.' " (Washington ""tar.
MB5.EAMLKER
forward a little, lifted it through the
fence and put it down on the ground.
"Yo' better go on home," said Mat
thew, "and let yo' massa tend to yo.
an' I'll be gettin' on my way."
He had not much more than said
this when the horse, turning his head,
looked right back as if to invite Mat
thew to ride him up to the barn.
"What yo' mean?" said Matthew.
"Yo want me to ride yo home?" The
horse stood so still that Matthew
climbed quickly up the horse's side
and in a minute was astride his back.
The horse walked pretty lame as he
crossed the field and came to a gate,
before which he stopped while Mat
thew, leaning down from his back,
pulled out the pin that held it and
pushed it open a Uttle for the horse to
go through. Then replacing the pin.
the pair kept on toward the house.
But while they were some distance
away Matthew saw a man coming on
the run toward them, and long before
he reached them Matthew could hear
him calling. "What you on that horse
for, you good-for-nothing nigger?"
The man grew less angry as he
heard Matthew's story, and, stooping
down, saw the ugly wound which he
knew could have been made only in '
the way Matthew had described.
"You have probably saved a very
valuable horse," said the matt, "by
getting his foot out of the fence, for
if he had torn his leg. as very likely
he would have in his struggle, he
would have been worthless. Where
did you come from. : anyway, and
where are you going?"
"I done come from CaraonviUe "
said Matthew, "but ef yo' wants to
know whar I'se goin' yo' sure'll have
to ask sumbuddy else.
"Did you run away?" asked the
1TULTI.
"No, sir," said Matthew. "I didn't
n" fhar wa'n't nobody
w.!U?d..n"' " I is walked off."
nrwlv?J ; y run to the kitchen
and wait there while I tell the cook to
filti 51" om supper, and after that
we..U- nnd Plac for you to sleep."
thJrtJ V' bn,k VO. sir." said Mat-"ew-
but yo' has no 'jectlons. I'd
rather sleep ut with de hoss an'
R wP?.e d ike tep . too."
..il i. ?- "ood supper, and
theij because Matthew insisted upon
.mn Jf him leeP out in a fine
Si So? W box taU' whp "Pe
dal bunch of clean straw was put In
one corner for him. Before he went
to sleep he saw the horse's foot all
ft""-.. and -u before he
fi? hta rV h? thought he heard
m,!. -"?i.k; the "' Wnd ofi
good night unde1 almost like
n.. xt " "e sic
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