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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTJRNAI MONDAY EVENING. JTJNF 21, 1915.
Ctapcfea tate Struma
An Independent Newspaper.
By FRANK P. MAO LENNAN.
(Entered July 1. Ii7. second-elaea
Matter at the poatoftlce at Topeka. Kan,,
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lag expenses.
Kansas certainly isn't in a position
these days to boast of many dry
towns.
Watermelons selling at J 1.2 5 each
is further proof that the good, old
Hummer time Is still a kilometer or
two in the distance.
Regardless of the cleverness of tax
dodging dogs for which Kansas is be
coming famous, the estimates are that
the personal property listed for tax
ation this year will show an increase
of $50. 000,000 over the similar returns
for 1914.
Had Mr. Bryan been on the job, it
i-sn't at all likely that United States
marines would be on their way to the
Mexican state of Sonora to protect the
American settlers there from the at
tacks of Yaqui Indians. He would
probably have insisted on doing no
more than sending warnings to these
Americans that they should get out
of the danger tone and return to this
country.
Most of the salient features of the
proposed ordinance for the regulation
of the jitneys doing business In To
peka appear to be of the reasonable
variety. The jitney operators are sure
to protest vigorously against the
$2,000 bond requirement, but the pub
lic is certainly entitled to some pro
tection of this sort, and a bond of that
size does not seem to be of prohibi
tive proportions.
Marconi, the wireless wizard, who
has taken a place in the Italian army
as a lieutenant of engineers on duty
with the telegraph brigade, will have
an excellent opportunity to try out
his new invention for looking through
a wall by working it on the stone
wall fortifications of the Austrians
that the Italian army will have to
circumvent in some way if it is to
make much progress.
Other localities on the face of the
globe have their rainy seasons but they
come along in an orderly and regu
lar way, and the people, knowing
when to expect them, can prepare
against them as far as possible and
make their other plans accordingly.
But in this particular section of the
universe nobody knows what the
weather is going to be until it arrives,
or how long any brand of it will con
tinue until it ends.
An excessive rainfall in the spring
that is of sufficient volume and force
to destroy certain crops and wash out
cr.hers that are just beginning to grow
also happens to have a large advan
tage for the farmers over a droush;
cf crop-des: toying proportions. Th cl
ean recoup some of their losses by re
planting the ruined crops or putin
others in their place. But a droutn
usually gets in its fine work so late
ir. the growing season that it is impos
sible f?r the farmers to offset their
l.ses in any way.
WHY FARMERS BI Y AUTOS.
An investigation by Faim Life,
covering seven counties in southwest
ern Indiana, shows that twice as
many cars are being sold this year,
as compared with last; and that about
75 per cent of the machines going
out this season are being sold to farm
ers. The investigation seems thor
ough enough to establish a basis for
the whole country. The licenses Is
sued by the state were first consid
ered, running about 64,000 against
36.000 for the same date in 1914.
The dealers were interviewed, as well
as more than seven hundred farmers.
Farm Life declares that not only are
average farmers buying machines, but
that every fourth or fifth man inter
viewed, if he had no car, is planning
to buy one this year or next if his
crops and his live stock ventures turn
out according to his reasonable hopes.
Is this unusual investment in automo
biles by farmers a sign of prosperity?
It is attributed by Farm Life largely
to the decrease in the price of ma
chines, and the need felt by the farm-
er for a time savins and pleasure
giving: vehicle. In no instance was it
found that the farmers neglected their
flocks and fields to go joy-riding; on
the contrary, the machine owners
were prosperous and happy.' A ma
chine helps to keep the boys and
girls on the farm, it does away with
the loneliness of rural life by making
a suburbanite of its owner, and puts
the town and the country in closer
touch, both in a social and a business
way.
Germ a ny seems to have succeeded
finally in perforating the boiler of the
gigantic Russian steam-roller, and it
is going to take a lot of repairing to
put it in condition again.
WHY .NOT A POLITICAL, PEACE?
Another curious fact is that most of
the prominent world peace protagon
ists in this country are inveterate hat
ers of peace in the political arena at
home. And if something approaching
political peace could be brought about
in this nation for a decade or so, the
waves of prosperity that we have ex
perienced would be small affairs com
pared with the one that would roll
over the land. By far the greatest
handicap under which the people of
these United States are forced to
struggle is the activity and incessant
clashing of their political patriots
Why not a League to Enforce Political
Peace for home consumption? The
necessities for one are paramount,
Or if it might not be wise to go that
far, it would help some, considerably
in fact, if there were two such leagues,
one for the Republican party and the
other for tho Democratic partv. This
would have a tendency to make mi
nority rule Impossible in the nation
or any of its states, and that would
be an end worth achieving.
Practically all of Chapters 1, 2 and
S of Mr. Bryan's broadside on the
European war and the way to peace
must fall under the classification of
old stuff."
THE BRITISH POSTOFFICE.
An interesting sidelight is thrown
on commercial conditions in Great
Britain by the report of the postoffice
for the year ending March 31, 1915,
according to a statement from A. H.
Baldwin, the United States commer
cial attache at London. The budget
estimates placed the department's
revenues for tho fiscal year 1914-15
at $164,000,000, with estimated ex
penditures of $127,250,000, leaving a
balance of some $2 7,000,000. On the
outbreak of the war there was an
immediate shrinkage of receipts to the
extent of $4,000,000 in the postal
revenues, $400,000 in telegraph re
ceipts, and $1,200,000 in telephone re
ceipts. On the other hand, expendi
tures increased very largely, with the
result that at the close of the fiscal
year actual receipts amounted to but
little over $144,000,000, while ex
penditures were about $128,500,000,
leaving a balance of $15,000,000 to
$16,000,000, For the coming year it
is estimated that expenditures will be
so heavy that the surplus will be re
duced to $7,500,000. Attention is
called in the department's report to the
satisfactory conditions in the Postal
Savings Bank. There was a sharp run
in August last, resulting in the with
drawal of some $25,000,000. Con
fidence, however, has been completely
restored, and in the last quarter of
the year deposits exceeded with
drawals by over $21,000,000. There
are about 1,200 postal servants actual
ly engaged in delivering correspond
ence in France. The department sent
35,000 men to the front and has been
forced to obtain in their places 20,000
men and 6.000 women.
Recent developments in Kansas
would seem to emphasize the fact that
P not only stands for Prison-mine but
also for Politics.
THE COST OF LIVING.
According to statistics assembled by
the federal government the cost of
living in this country Is higher than
ever before, showing an increase of
2 per cent over the high water mark
that was reached in 1913. But it is
also a notable fact that the people
are not complaining as much about
living's cost a-s they have been in the
last few years, and this notwithstand
ing the facts that business, generally,
is not as active as it mifeht be and
that unemployment for this time of
year :s of greater volume than usual.
All of this can only mean cne thing.
Through the necessity of making both
ends meet because of the high cost of
living, the people, or most of them,
have cut down here and there on the
high living, in which they had been
indulging so freely. Ana not very
many of thorn are any th5 worse for
their economical efforts.
Brother Josephus Daniels has been
unusually quiet since the retirement of
Mr. Bryan from the cabinet. Possibly
he is not a believer in the theory that
lightning doesn't strike twice in the
same locality.
A "SAFETY-FIRST" MIXER A L.
Asbestos is a potential life-saver.
We do not all realize, perhaps, that
the fire proof theater curtain is made
of asbestos, which is rock matter but
nevertheless almost as soft and pliable
as cotton or woolen farbric. Asbestos
has of course many other uses. Its
incombustibility and Its fibrous struc
ture make it one of the most useful
minerals for many and various struc
tural purposes. It is used in making
lumber, roofing, plaster, and stucco.
Houses that are built largely of asbes
tos afford their occupants not only
complete protection from fire because
it is a "nonconductor," but assure
them also the comfort of freedom
from extreme heat and cold. The asbestos-producing
of the United States
is growing. For many years we have
been the greatest manufacturers and
users of asbestos, drawing our raw
material from Canada, but we are now
getting some excellent fiber in our
own country. The most notable feat
ure of the asbestos industry in 1914
was the development of a new field
in Arizona, which is furnishing a
grade of fiber that compares very fa-
vorably with the Canadian. .As the
mineral occurs in the Grand Canyon
it is frequently designated Grand Can
yon asbestos, although the deposit In
that remarkable natural wonder is not
yet producing asbestos commercially.
For electric installation the Arizona
asbestos is even better than the Ca
nadian product, for it contains a lower
percentage of iron. Asbestos of a low
grade has been produced in Georgia
for many years. A report by J. S.
Diller of the United States geological
survey, on the production of asbestos
shows that in 1914 the United States
produced and sold 1,247 short tons,
valued at $18,965, a gain of 13 per
cent In quantity and 72 per cent in
value as compared with the produc
tion of 1913. Besides the small pro
duction in California and Virginia
there were three important producers
two in Georgia, who furnished the
greater portion, and one in Arizona,
who produced high-grade material
only.
Journal Entries
Among the rare things with humans
are good dispositions-
i- T T"
The game a man likes best is the
one he can win at oftenest
Rvervbodv is in favor of all kinds
of rules and regulations for the other
fellow.
Loafing on a job is a reasonably
sure way to get a chance to hunt
for another one.
Everv man or woman has a pet
aversion, or two or three, and they're
generally unreasonable.-
Jayhawker Jots
Rpnnin Franklin, ir.. of the Erie
Rpcord. observes that a girl will show
her best beau everything in the house
except the family album.
A carpenter may be known by his
chips, says Ruth Alexander Pepple in
the Erie Record, but a housekeeper is
known by the number of quarts of
fruit she cans.
When we see a young lady's father
and mother going to the train with
her when she is going away for a vis
it of one or two days, says the Cedar-
vale Commercial, we conclude mat
she has a mighty good hold on their
heartstrings and the chances .are that
she got the grip on them by not being
afraid of dishwater.
A erift of eab ' without a well-bal
anced thinker to regulate it is often
a detriment rather than an advantage,
argues the Horton Heaalignt
Commerclal. A lot of information
without the ability to put it Into pror
ttable practice is worth very little to
any man. Thus it becomes necessary
for a man not only to have proper
thoughts, but alro the ability to ex
press them effectively.
'When it comes to gardening. Jit
ney Jones remarked recently within
the hearing of the Holton Signal, "my
favorite vegetable is the onion." And
the Signal explains: Jitney's prefer
ence is not based on the fact that he
likes the onion any better than he does
other products of the garden, but from
the fact that the onion, requires less
care than any other vegetable ana
from its very nature defies the attack
of every known insect.
Globe Sights
ET THE ATCKISON OLOBB.
Never depend on your kin for poli
tical support.
A lot of professional men overdo
that term, ethics.
Usually a man who denies that he is
a knocker is one.
Some men do not require an emetic
to throw up the sponge.
Manv things look reasonable merely
because you want to believe them.
A a rule making an excuse for
bad business is making an excuse for
yourself.
Most women with good forms. It
seems, have homely faces; also those
with good farms.
Most fruit cake looks like a plug of
tobacco. Not that we want to say
anything very mean today.
Well." said a man today, "I guess
'm ire t tine old. for every now and
then I find tobacco juice on my shirt
front.
By the time a flirty girl reaches the
age of 25 years she looks like some
thing purchased in a secondhand
store.
Remember that no furniture looks
like much of anything on a moving
van. and be charitable with the new
neighbor.
Another educational problem is that
which confronts the teacher who has
to make a living during a three or
four months' vacation without pay.
The Girls Who Show Through
should remember it can't be done to
advantage when cold weather causes
goose pimples to mar the background.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Everv man should be the conduc
tor of his own train of thought.
A man doesn't have to be his own
chauffeur to blow his own horn.
Some people are eager to get to the
top and others prefer to be subma
rines. It seems to be a woman's privilege
to change her mind and lie about her
ago.
It is Just as well to strike out for
yourself as to allow a pinch hitter to
do it for you.
Many a man never puts his best foot
forward for fear somebody will step
on his toe.
If you don't want to be thrown in
the shade it's a good plan to make hay
while the sun shines.
When a mother uses her slipper on
her offspring she should put her whole
sole into the operation. j
Blobbs Wouldn't you like to mount
the pinnacle of fame? Slobbs No, I
am too fond of company.
Wigwag I can't drink anything at
all. Even beer makes me as crazy as
a mad dog. Guzzler Beer makes me
froth at the mouth, to.
"Ah, my little man," greeted the
elderly gentleman, "going to school,
eh? And what do you like most about
school?" "The days when there ain't
none," promptly replied the little
man.
"Who giveth this woman to wed
this man?" intoned the preacher dur
ing the marriage ceremony. "There
seems to be a suspicion she is throw
ing herself away," muttered the disap
pointed suitor in the back pew.
On the Spur
of the Moment
BT ROT K. MOULTON.
The City Chap.
A city man, he is surely skeered
To go around with three days' beard,
And when he jumps into a barber
Chair,
It's a quarter here and a quarter
there
And his prosperity's not insured
Until he has gone and been manicured
And they slap a massage on his face
Before they allow him to leave the
place.
And they schine his shoes and they
brush his hat.
And they treat his scalp and do this
and that.
And they handle him with such tender
care
That they make him feel like a mil
lionaire.
The cost of livin" don't never go down,
That is, not while you're livin' in
town,
Where the butter costs four shillin' a
brick
And the price of eggs would just
make you sick.
A feller to stick with the bunch
Has got fer to stay downtown for
lunch.
Fer the fellers nowadays pull off big
deals
While they're Fletcherizing of their
meals.
It costs him money, I will be bound,
Durned near every time he turns
around.
Which leads me to think there is quite
a charm
To the simple life on the dear old
farm.
Uncle Abner.
Hod Peters has started a vegetable
garden out back of his house. He
will work on it about three days and
then his wife will do the rest.
The feller who kin fight back when
failure hits him In the nose is the
one who is found at the top of col
umn next to pure reading matter.
Miss Euphemia Mudge, our poetess
of passion, says she will write for a
living in the future. Friends will
kindly omit flowers.
Deacon Stubbs' mule Hyacinth is
suffering from the artistic temper
ment and Doc Hanks has been called
in. Doc says he cured the Deacon,
so he ought to be able to cure the
mule.
Rev. Hudnutt of the Hardshell
church announces that he is ready to
do a little wallpapering as a side
line.
Since Mr. and Mrs. Lafe Tibbitts
have bought a $350 automobile they
can't see their : neighbors on the
street.
All the Time.
The statesmen can get busy, wave
the old flag and orate.
But the cost of living rises just
the same.
They may call the money barons and
they may investigate.
But the cost of living rises just
the same. '
They may threaten, they may bluster,
they may scream and paw the air;
They may plead and they may grovel
and in madness tear their hair;
They can tell of real conditions and
the awful truth lay bare,
But the cost of living rises just
the same.
But Did the Janitor Live?
. Miss Olga Swahson. knowing the
janitor's fondness, presented that
young man with a mince pie, Friday.
The young lady is only twelve years
old, a pupil in the intermediate room,
but knows how to make a good pie.
Thanks, my dear. Austin Times.
Evening Chat
BT RUTH CAMERON.
Readjusting One's Self.
My neighbor and I were comparing
the progress of our nasturtiums. It
was that wonderful June after-dinner
hour that demands more than any
other hour of the year to be spent out
of doors, preferably in a garden, ideal
ly in an old-fashioned garden.
My neighbor turned her steps home
ward, sighing. "Maid's night out,"
she explained. "Seems to me as if
Wednesday night is no sooner gone
than it's here again. And I do hate
those dishes so. Dreading them spoils
the whole dinner hour for me, and af
terward I spend half the evening put
ting them off. And, of course, that
only makes them harder in the end."
My neighbor has only had a helper
two weeks.
Before that time she did the dishes
every evening. One would think the
present schedule would seem a relief.
Do I think then that her dread of do
ing them one a week is an affectation ?
Far from it. I've been through it all
myself and I can sympathize too thor
oughly for that. When I had to do
the dishes every night I made up my
mind to it. It was my routine. I did
n't resent it or dread it or try to get
out of it any more than doing up my
hair in the morning. But when I had
a helper and only had to do them
once a week, then I ungratefully
dreaded that one night.
How about it. reader friends? Is it
that way with you? Or do you remem
ber to be grateful on Wednesdays or
Thursiays that you don't have the
drudgery of dishwashing every night?
The habit of adjusting ourselves to
conditions is a great factor in all our
lives. One summer I occupied a room
with two enormous closets. It seemed
as if I surely must have plenty of
room. Yet every hook was filled and
the thing I wanted was always hiding
under something else. The next year,
with one moderate-sized closet, I ad
justed my belongings carefully, leav
ing more in my trunk and strictly
eliminating non-necessities, and, on
the whole, I was just as well off as I
had been with the two big closets.
At the telephone the other evening
I caught myself growing impatient
when I had to wait two or three min
utes to complete a call. In some for
eign countries, I have read, one sel
dom gets a call completed in less than
five minute, and anyone wishing to
make a distance call must register the
day before. If I had been born in
one of those countries I should never
think of being impatient at minor de
lays. And yet, doubtless, if I moved
to this country I should soon readjust
myself and become as impatient of
any slight delay as I now am.
It comforts me a. very little when I
am grieving over the bleak, monoton
ous lives of some of my fellow-beings
to think that perhaps they adjust
themselves to the monotony and
bleakness and do- not suffer from it
as much as It seems to us they must.
And yet I wonder if I should say that,
lest It be seized upon by those who are
always ready to justify their own lux
urious lives and forget the injustice of
things. The thought should not stulti
fy our sense of the unfairness of
things, only make our sense of it a lit
tle less poignantly unbearable.
SOtlLOQIY OF OFFICE BOLDER.
They readily give recognition today.
To all a great man 1 appear.
They attach much importance to what I
may say.
But how will It be next year?
Though every one knows if he only will
think
That my salary comes from his pocket.
And the clothes which I wear and my
victuals and drink.
Yet my office lifts me like a rocket.
I swell and I dictate and govern the crowd.
Where I walk the ground shakes with
my tread.
But down in my heart I suspect that a
shroud
Is now making for me as one dead.
Because In the past I have known many
men
While In office like monarehs appear,
But who lost a large part of their dignity
when
They went out at the close of their year.
And so it comes to me quite often of late
"Have you done your full duty while
here ?
Have you been a good servant while sitting
in state?
Are you honest as you would appear?"
I find that my general answer to this
That "I'm honest as others have been"
Will not still the thing which inside of me
is.
And call virtue what I know is sin.
The office alone holds the place of the
man
In most cases, and Isn't it queer
That he swells to such magnitude In his
brief span
Which must close with the end of the
year?
C. W. GOODIN.
Ottawa, Kan.
The Evening Story
After Forty Years.
(By Barbara Rhodes.)
"Love and romance be hanged!"
snorted Uncle Zeb, pounding the floor
with his cane. "There isn't much ro
mance in cottages and crust. Marry
Lue Farday and I change my will to
day!" "Shall I telephone Mr. Dodd to
come down, Uncle Zeb?" asked Ted
lazily.
LTncle Zeb could take a dare.
"If that is your answer to my ulti
matum yes. Tell him I wish to
make important changes in my will,
he said significantly.
Ted moved over to the telephone,
picked up the receiver and held it to
his ear, calling for long-distance con
nection.
Uncle Zeb watched him from under
beetling brows.
It irritated Ted Borland's uncle to
see that young man so deliberately
throwing away a fortune, but, of
course, he couldn't see his only
nephew marry into the Farday family
without making a vigorous protest.
The Fardays and the Borlands had
wrangled over boundary lines and sun
dry other matters for a decade, and
now that the younger generation
showed a disposition to be friendly the
old man's wrath was stimulated to
frenzy.
He could see through the whole
matter, he told himself a dozen times
a day. The Fardays had lost much
of their money and were land poor;
now there was only Miss Henrietta
and her niece, Lue Farday, left on the
place. No wonder Lue Farday was
angling to marry Ted Borland!
"I won't have it!" growled Uncle
Zeb.
Ted was talking to Mr. Dodd, the
lawyer. His pleasant, drawling voice
exasperated Uncle Zeb beyond con
trol. '
"Ah, Mr. Dodd!" Ted was saying,
"Uncle Zeb wants you to come down
to Borlands this afternoon oh, you
can easily make the z:02 train. Some
thing about changing his will, I be
lieve! I suppose sothanks good
by."
"Think you're mighty clever to have
him down here, don't you?" quavered
Uncle Zeb.
"I thought you wanted him down
Uncle Zeb." returned Ted with a
straight look from his brown eyes
"I didn't believe you were such a
fool." grumbled the old man. "How
are you going to support that Farday
irirl ?"
"Luei" corrected Ted quietly. "Why,
we thought we'd live" on the old place
with Miss Henrietta, and I'm going
to raise chickens. You know I ve had
considerable luck experimenting on
the farm here."
"Chickens!" yelled Uncle Zeb,
Dounding his gouty toe by mistake and
almost fainting with agony. "You go
ing to disgrace me by starving to
death next door?"
"I'd disgrace myself as a man if I
couldn't support myself and a wire,
to say nothing of a thistledown crea
ture like Miss Henrietta, retortea
Ted. "Of course, I shall keep my
position in the office until the business
is started. So long as I don't ask any
favors of you, Uncle Zeb, you should
n't complain. Leave your money
where you like. It's yours to do with
as vou Dlease. I shan t complain.
"Fool!" groaned Uncle Zeb, tear-
fullv.
The telephone bell jingled from its
corner,
"Answer it, Ted."
Ted's handsome head inclined to the
instrument.
"Yes? Oh, you, darling? I'm com
ing over presently. Something im
portant? Aunt Henrietta? Jove,
Lue, but that's a blow. Would you
very much mind crowding into a tiny
flat in the city? I might make good
after a while Oh, of course, your
aunt needs some one. Perhaps I can
talk her around to our way of. think,
ing. I'm coming over right now.
Goodby, sweetheart. Don't grieve, it
will come out all right-o."
He hung up the receiver and crossed
the room to look down at the little
dried-up old man with quizzical eyes.
"I suppose Henrietta Farday ob
jects to having anything as practical
as a chicken farm on her estate,"
sneered Uncle Zeb.
Ted shook his head.
"It isn't that. Uncle Zeb. Miss
Henrietta objects out and out to my
marrying Lue says she'll be hanged
if her nices marries a bullying Bor
land. So there you are!"
"And your girl won't chance mar
rying on your salary?"
"Yes." said Ted proudly; "only she
thinks it's her duty to Miss Henrietta
to remain with her. Henrietta is not j
very well, and there is no other rela- j
tive. (
"Pooh!" sniffed Lncle Zeb. "Go
away, do. I am sick of your mawk
ish romancing. I want to take a nap."
As soon as he was alone Uncle Zeb
peered from the window until he saw
that Ted's figure had disappered
through the gate. Then the old man
hobbled across the room to the tele
phone and called for a local number.
The deeply masculine voice of Miss
Henrietta Farday came in answer.
"This is Zeb Borland," began Uncle
Zeb. doubtfully.
"Hump! Bullying Borland!" com
mented Aunt Henrietta in her most
forbidding accents.
"You never gave me an opportunity
to disprove that title, Henrietta," pro
tested the old man.
"Glad I didn't! If I'd married you,
I would have been more miserable
than I am now. Glad my father put
his foot down Just as I've put my
foot down on your nephew's love
making." "Put your foot down?"
"Yes both feet! There won't be
any bullying Borlands in my family."
declared the old lady.
"You can't know Ted very well.
Why, he isn't a real Borland anyway
he's more like his mother's folks,
the Terrys; pure gold all through.
He's good enough for any girl in Al
mos county or the world, for that
matter."
"He isn't good enough for my
Luella! I don't know how you can
say he isn't a Borland. Why, he's the
living image of what you were, Zeb
Borland, forty years ago."
"Ted looks like me I did ? Pshaw.
Henrietta. I never was half as good
looking as Teddy." Uncle Zeb's voice
bore a pleasant note.
"You were better looking!" contra
dicted the lady sharply. "I can prove
it by that miniature "
Silence for a moment.
Uncle Zeb smiled into the mouth
piece of the instrument.
"Henrietta 'Farday have you kept
that picture of me?"
"I keep lots of trash!" came in a
stifled tone.
"I've got your picture, Henny. but
I don't call it 'trash,' " said Uncle
Zeb in an oddly gentle tone. "You
want to trade pictures with me?"
A hush then:
"You better keep the one you got
and I'll keep mine."
"I should be lonesome without it,"
whispered Uncle Zeb. "I've kept it
in my pocket so many years, Henny,
I'd miss it. But I suppose you've
kept mine in some trash box along
with other trash."
"Zeb Borland, I'm a liar," blazed
Henrietta with all the fire of her
youth. "I've worn your miniature
next my heart, all these years because
it's all there was left of love! Laugh,
if you want to."
"Henrietta!" How eager was the
old voice now. "It isn't too late to
have a little happiness just us two
and the young folks why, there's
enough room in these two houses for
all of us and for another generation.
What say, Henny?"
"Yes,"- came Henrietta's answer
along the line. "There isn't any use
contradicting a bullying Borland."
(Copyright, 1915, by the McClure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
Bunions are nobby things in shoes.
It's a poor elevator that won't work
both ways.
A babe in arms is worth two armed
with toy pistols.
Many an illiterate man is able to
make his dollar mark.
Hope may bud when it is cloudy,
but it blooms only in sunshine.
Some men are so forgetful that they
even fail to remember the poor.
Every time you avoid doing wrong
you increase your inclination to do
right.
Words resemble . sunbeams- the
more they are condensed the deeper
they burn.
A man must be an intellectual giant
who is really as big as his own opinion
of himself.
Another disagreeable thing about
the weather people are always want
ing to talk about it.
When a young man marries his
mother always feels sorry for him
and his sisters feel sorry for his wife.
A nonentity is a man who has to tell
people who the girl was that he mar
ried before they are able to recollect
him.
Probably there is nothing quite so
pure as the motive of a man who lends
money to another when he is morally
certain he will never get it back.
THE BILXD SQUIRREL'S STORY.
After Mr. and airs. Reddy had
picked out their new home in the
park and had settled all in nice order,
they determined to explore around a
bit.
"It's all very well to have a good
home," paid Reddy, "and this new one
in the big tree trunk surely is a good
one, but I for one, want to know some
thing about the place I live. Now
let's visit around a bit and see if there
is anybody we want to get acquainted
with. We may have very good neigh
bors. Anyway we ought to find out
and see who lives near. Come now,
let's be off!"
But Mrs. Reddy didn't want to be
off. She wanted to stay and fix the
nest some more. "Just see, Reddy."
ehe said, "we want this pile of rub
bish cleared out and we want oh!
there is a lot of little jobs we want
to do. Let's stay and work at home."
"No, I'm tired of working at home,"
complained Reddy, "I'm going out."
"All right then," said Mrs. Reddy
contentedly, "you go out and I'll stay
here and finish the work, men you
can tell me all you see and hear," she
added persuasively.
Sn Rertdv allowed himself to be
persuaded to do expactly what he had
intended all along to do anyway. He
said "goodbye" and started out.
He had not gone far when he saw
hefore him a little squirrel nearly as
hisr as himself and exactly the same I
color. "There is somebody who looks
like a good neighbor," he whispered
to himself, "I'll hide here and watch
him it he seems to be my kind of a
suuirrel. I'll make his acquaintance."
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So Reddy pusneu uun&eiL usui
the bushes and watched.
The stranger squirrel sat up straight
on his hind legs and daintily nibbled
his nuts; but Reddy noticed that he
bari a curious habit of turning his
head way round sideways when he
hunted on the ground for a new nut.'
Otherwise he seemed to do quite as
Reddy himself would do. So Reddy
decided to speak to him and see if
thev could be friends.
"May you always have as many nuts
before you as now," said Reddy po
litely. ...
The stranger squirrel took a quick
glance at Reddy who was edging his
wav out of the bushes and then at the
pile of nuts before him. "That surely j
is a good wish." he said, "won't you
have one yourself. Are you new in j
the park? I don't remember seeing
you before." I
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IM Kansas Ave. V. P. Whltmore Mgr.
Kansas Comment
- THE CHURCH IS ON TRIAL.
Every little while some effervescent
thinker, endeavors to hold the center
of the stage by announcing, with an
air of great wisdom, that "The Church
is on Trial," -indicating by . the very
statement that the testimony is all in.
the verdict rendered and the officers
representing civilization are about
ready to place the church in the don
jon keep. Of course the church Is on
trial. It was on trial when the Ro
man soldiers turned Jesus over for
crucifixion because of the demands of
the mob. It has been on trial for two
thousand years and during all of that
time, there have been men both wise
and foolish, who have tried to defame
her reputation and to destroy her, yet
today the church is greater and
stronger than ever. It is not the
church that has brought about the
bitter war in Europe, but it is the
teachings pf Christ that are respon
sible for Red Cross hospitals: for the
thousands of men and women who
have entered the hospital service from
foreign lands and for the millions in
money that have been freely given for
the care of the non-combatants. The
church has not only been on trial for
two thousand years, but by its very
life and character it has also put on
trial every man and woman in the
world. Lawrence Journal-World.
THE BANTAM NATION.
San Marino, following the exampls
cf Italy, has finally jumped Into the
war game. This makes the thirteenth
nation now engaged in the war. San
Marino has an army nearly as large
in number as the school children of
the Sixth ward of this city below the
seventh grade. It is not quite as
large as Union township, and its pop
ulation is approximately as much as
two-thirds of West Wichita during
the vacation of Friends university
and Mount Carmel academy. Its most
important institutions are two large
cisterns in which the entire national
water supply is stored, no well being
possible in the country. The Ger
mans can reach it with a Zeppelin
easily and it is estimated that seven
good bombs, so thrown that they
would fall Inside the national bound
aries, which would be unusually good
marksmanship for a Zeppelin, would
wipe out tho bulk of the republic,
which. It is claimed, is the oldest na
tion in Europe. Wichita Beacon.
From Other Pens
HOUSEHOLD EFFICIENCY.
The place to learn housekeeping is
In the home a fact that ?ieeds to be
recognized by the advocates of house
hold efficiency. It is quite true that
not all homes are good schools, that
not all mothers are competent house
keepers, that not all young women
have opportunity to learn in their own
kitchens. But great numbers of
mothers are thoroughly furnished by
knowledge and experience to train
their daughters in the making and
keeping of a home, and it is a mis
take for the lecturers of home econ
omics to ignore the usefulness of
these mothers, and to disdain their
practical knowledge of housekeeping.
There Is quite enough to do to teach
the women who lack experience, the
young women who have not practical
housekeeping mothers, without dis
counting the abilities of the really in
telligent and expert women who have
made America a land of splendidly
kept homes. New York Mail.
"We lived here a few days last
year," explained Reddy as he helped
himself to a nut, "but hornets came
to our nest so we went away. But we
mean to try it again this year because
the eating is so good."
"Yes, isn't it," said the stranger
squirrel. "I got all this pile of nuts
from the children visitors yesterday.
That's better than hunting them your
self, says I."
"Is something the matter with your
eye?"
They talked back and forth a few
minutes and all the while Reddy was
noticing that queer sideways move
ment of the stranger squirrel's head.
At last his curiosity got the better of
his manners and he said, "Why do you
turn your head so queerly? Is some
thing the matter with your eye?"
Then the squirrel turned the other
way and Reddy saw that he was quite
blind in his left eye. "Yes, that was
an accident that happened before I
came to the park. Some hunters shot
into the tree where I was hiding and.
though the shot missed killing me, It
blinded me as you see. That is the
reason why my friends advised me to
live in the park. Food hunting is
much easier here because the children
are so kind to me," added the squirrel
bravely.
"Think of that courage!" remarked
Reddy to himself, "here is surely a
new. friend worth having!" (Copy
right, Clara Ingham Judson.)