The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
August 6, 1908
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THE TOPESA DAILY STATE JOUraAIr TIIUESDAY EVUIIIITQ, AUGUST 0, 1CC3. TOrELV STUB JOURNAL. By FRANK P. MAO IiEJTffAlf Enuml July 1. 187a. as eacond-clAaS matter at the poatoffloe at Toiiek. Kan. now in act or oongi j VOLUME XXXV No- 19? Official Mtate Paper. Official Paper City of Tone's. T&RJaB OJT SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier, canta a week to ur nart of ToDeka. auburba or at the eame prica In any Kan aaa towna wbara the paver aaa a carrier llr mail, one year. .........m... nail, three month -"f"f urdar edition of dally, ona yar... l.M By Bttunli TKLEFHOMIa, BinrtnoM ni.. Bell WT Bualneae Office V? Jfeportera' Room J'1 3 Bportera" Room JD4- J! "Prank P. MicLmmm Ind- PERMANENT BOMS. Topeka State Journal building, end ra Kanaaa avenue, eorner of Els-nth. Nw York Olflea: Flatlron building, at Twenty-third street, co-rier Fifth aTaaaa m; Broadway, jpaul Blocs, rasnaaw. Chicago Office: Hartford buUdJnat- PesJ. mantnr. AVtrr T. i viDrn tno DTsnne OP TEE ASSOCIATED PRESS. To Btate Journal la a member of tba Associated Preaa nd receives tba full day telegraph report of that great newe or ganisation for the exehialva afternoon publication In Topeke The news la reoalved tn Tba Stat Jour nal building over wlrea for this eole par- poee. HOME HEWS WHILE A WAT. 1 Sabecrfbere of trie State Journal way rtnrlnu' the summer may haw the paper mailed regularly each day to any address at the rata of ten cent! a werk or Uiirty cents a month (by mall only.) Address changed as often las desired. While out of town tba State Journal will be to yon like a dally letter from home. Mnnm nnwnt Is i eimeeMifl on hbese abort time subscriptions, to save bookkeeping tlx me a. Mr. Bryan Is getting to be a real re ixoi nier In earnest. He is gotng to hake a comparatively short speech tn moceptlng the Democratlo presidential jnomlnatlon. The forest tire which has swept through an extensive territory in Brlt 3h Columbia leaving a wake of death, destruction and disaster Is almost too 'terrible to contemplate. Most people Irving In these parts just now would not have the least bit of terror in going up six miles in a balloon for it's been discovered that the temperature at that height is thir ty degrees below zero. An incident to the inspection of milk to be sold in this city after Oc tober 1 under the provisions of the ordinance recently passed by the city council which is not pleasing for the "common people" to contemplate Is the fact that the milkmen will prob ably boost the price of their wares to ten cents a quart. ..There are a number of automobile scorchers in Topeka, who ply their trade chiefly at night.' It would be a good plan for the police force to get after them and also for the safe and sane motorists to lend their assistance In. all ways for the suppression of the scorchen. It's a duty they owe to themselves, st least. Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson, who achieved fame as a youth by calling a fishing trip a "pis catorial pursuit," has more reasons for worry because a recent press dis patch is to the effect that although the Mikado's debts are so great that his nation Is nearly bankrupt he is still rushing ahead In the construction of a bigger navy. Information now comes from Wash ington that while foreign governments litre insisting that the United States representatives at their courts be mil lionaires, so that they can hold up their end socially, investigation reveals that the foreign diplomats accredited to this country are making reputations around the national capital that a "tightwad" might envy. Chief Eaton has told his policemen that they can wear light weight blue coats during the heated spell in place of the heavy regulation coat. That's a sensible plan and the chief might have added, a valuable pointer or two by telling some of his officers to wear specs. They might then be able to sea a few scorching automoblllsts and others who create annoyances by com mitting petty misdemeanors for which they should be hauled over the coals. John Mitchell, the former president of the United Mine Workers and In all probability the strongest leader of la bor in the country, despite the beliefs of Samuel Oompers In the premises. Is the kind of a labor leader that de mands the profound respect of all men. He announces that he will not take an active part in the presidential campaign under any circumstances. It would be a great thing for labor In the United States If there were a few more leaders of the caliber of John Mitchell. Something new in the way of trusts Is being formed under the guiding hand of J. Plerpont Morgan, the past master of organizing gigantic combin ations, according to dispatches from New Tork. It's nothing less than an antomobile trust with a capitalization of $25,000,000 to start off with. This will be In the nature of a "good" trust in that it will not worry the "common people" very much. They .are only interested in automobiles to the extent of watching them pass by and wishing for a ride in them, and also dodging them. on divers occasions. As might have been expected It was the west, and the new state or Okla homa In particular, that has provided something out of the ordinary in an International romance. An Italian girl, of a family of title, came all the way from sunny Italy to Oklahoma to jnarr-A "proroinent. railroad, official" whom she had met a couple of years ago in Mexico. He turned out to be section roreman and the disappoint ed lass was lmini1lall n.mli home by her Irate father who came wim ner. The environments of the society in which the "section foreman whirled did not eomA fin n ia ott. pectatlons of the Italians of noble diooo. TRAPS FOR THE UNWARY. An old saying, "A fool and his money are soon parted," continues to be II lustrated, in the same way sometimes and In different ways at others, so fre quently as to Justify In many minds the severe criticism of humanity In general .contained In that other saying. "There's a fool born every minute.' What surprises the critics who really mean well and put their criticisms in these caustic expressions because they want to warn away the unwary, is that after-pointing out the ditch, put ting a plain sign In front of It In fact, Into which so many have Innocently tumbled, others as easily trapped walk straight into It. It seems, however, that nothing but personal experience will teach some people to avoid the trap that is set for them, and there are some of these who after extrication from one will put their feet In another even of the same kind. At all events, they learn noth Ing from the experience of others and they let the warnings of kindly ad visers pass unheeded. When Thomas P. Bayard was am bassador to England In 1894, so many schemes to extract money from the pockets of easily deluded Americans by the hope of securing estates alleged to have belonged to English ancestors who left no heirs there, were concocted, that he thought at last that It was time to Intervene to save the dupes from their own folly. This ha did by the plain statement that estates In England left by the decease of their proprietors without native heirs went to the state, because no foreigner could under the English law inherit them. And now Is seen a select lot of Americans putting up funds to secure their share In a Lon don property left by a man who died 200 years ago and which has Increased in value till today it Is said to be worth $80,000,000. Tempting, isn't It? UNFORTCNATB CHILDREN'. Thirty years hence, will William Howard Taft Higgins, or William Jen nings Bryan Wiggins be any more grateful to the person or persons re sponsible for their names than Ulysses Simpson Grant Smith is today to his denominators? The custom of naming children after distinguished men is by no means new. Its age, in fact, is probably about all that remains for its excuse. In no country has it prevail ed more than In this. So that all that Is needed, frequently to tell a man's age Is his name. Hunt up the time of the distinguished statesman from whom he was named, and his age is ascertained. Women, fortunately for the success of their supposed age secretlveness, escape this habit. But among the men's names all degrees and eminences of popular statesmen are represented in great abundance, from George Washington Brown down to Theodore Roosevelt Jones. The lesser degree of misfortune comes to those in fants whose great prototype possessed only two names. Those of the William Henry Harrison Smith type have a greater burden to bear. And there have been some whose parents could not agree on any one pinnacle of great ness, and have gone through life with such loads as George Washington Ben jamin Franklin Johnson. It is a sign of the progress of the day that this custom is being honored more in the breach than In the ob servance. It would seem that chil dren, not being wholly unexpected af fairs, might in times past fared some what better as to their names. The development is curious. Primitive peo ple seem not, at first, to have recog nized the necessity of any definite names for children. Names were scarce in the olden times. There was John, and when John had a son he was called John's son, that's all. Probably John's daughter had no designation whatever. Surnames were happenings, as a study of their derivations will show. In time this was better regula ted, but the selection of given names for children was still a task. Down to the times of a generation or so ago prevailed the pleasent custom of open ing the Bible at random and taking the first proper name that appeared on the page. The naming of children after prominent men was the next subterfuge of indolence. Perhaps that custom will be outgrown in time; there are hopeful signs. A fair proportion, today, of children of both sexes get names that have a family or. at least, an euphonic significance. But there are still some unfortunates. Probably In the end It will be necessary to organize a society of some sort for their relief. A SQUARE DEAL, FIRST. Much has been said and written pro and con concerning the proposed gen eral Increase in freight rates by the railroads as the only solution of the question before them of making both ends meet at the present time. Of course there's the alternative of a gen eral reduction in wages among railroad employes but this is hardly being con sidered by the railroad managers be cause of the Increased cost of living and the more potent reason that it would result in strikes which would he paralyzing to the business of the country at a time when there Is every indication that it Is going to pick up materially. The current issue of the Iron Trade Review adds Its views to the discus sion of this question which is going on and they are worthy of consideration. These opinions are expressed as fol lows: "The proposition made some time ago to promote prosperity by advancing railroad freight rates came as a decid ed innovation and has aroused much discussion. Startling as the plan was. however, much has been said In favor of It, and all fair minded men will ad mit that the condition of the railroads, as to receipts and expenditures, is de plorable. It is. Of course, admitted that wages ot. employes have been, advanced In recent years, and that this advance is no more than necessary to meet the greater cost of living, and no one wish es to sea the wages reduced. "Certainly no one in the iron -business, whose prosperity depends to a large extent on that of the railroads, favors any policy that Is unfair to them. It is, nevertheless, true, that there Is a wide-spread feeling among all business men that many, ranronua have resorted to. reprehensible prac tices, and do not come before the peo ple with clean hands when they plead to be permitted to Increase freight rates. If the railroads had Dean u frank in their financial statements,. and as honest in their methods as the great steel and iron companies, and had not indulged In outside speculations or inn er questionable practices, there would be little hesitation today in agreeing to high freight rates. Some railroads have been honestly conducted and some rates ought to be Increased, especially those relating to freight wnicn must be shipped by fast lines In almost as short time as passenger train sche dule, but we do not believe that all railroads are entitled to like consider ation, or that there is any Justification for a general and sweeping advance In freight charges. Let there be the most searching investigation to determine what the actual facts are in every case, and then all fair minded Americans will cheerfully acquiesce In tne result When the oubllc becomes convinced that higher charges are necessary to meet legitimate expenses ana m m wilt ho nn hnvlnB- of securities of other railroads, or other questionable use of funds, there "will be no opposition to reasonable advances in rates. JOURNAL ENTRIES The things that appeal to one most in a big city are tne beggars. Mnmt men VinvA the Idea that their wives won the prizes in the matri monial game. Rome folks are so economical that they won't even use a whole clotn to make a lie out or. e n Mavbe men's hair generally turns gray before women s because men wear theirs ail the time. Jb Jfc 4fr creed to the effect that it's Impossible .o maae a living wimoui jying. JAYHAWKER JOTS An El Dorado man named Mart Wells started in the other morning to count his spring chickens. When he reached 600 he stopped. A new jail is being built at Bushton but the Sterling Bulletin thinks it is more likely to be used as a wheat bin than a place to confine, wrongdoers. A party of Beloit automoblllsts have returned home after a three weens outing in Colorado. While there they made a climb with the mac tune or. a.suu feet. Probably this season's record for cat fish tales goes to Augusta where a story is current to the effect that one of the natives recently caught a catnsn which weighed an even 60 pounds. An eDldemic of some sort has broken out among the turkeys around Atchi son. Its results are fatal. One woman lost 40 of the Thanksgiving fowl re eently In one day and another lost 80 in three days. J. F. Bales, a farmer living near Beliot. and a historian of local note. declares that Brigham Toung was the man who brought the first sunflower seed to the state. "When Young went to Salt Lake he planted sunflow ers all along his route to guide his followers later on," said Bales, "ana from the seed which that old Mormon sowed has come the sunflower crop of the Sunflower state. A Concordia girl went to Salina and gave a swimming exhibition at the natatorlum to a number of friends. She is said to be a wonder as she can swim standing on her head, swim dog fashion, sailor fashion, Indian fashion, dive without holding her nose, can lav" her hair, tread water, float. Jump off the spring board without hitting on her back and she never catches the cramps. Wichita Eagle. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. v You never see ghosts; you only HEAR of them. No man likes to hear a woman brag on some other man. Never tell a "Joke" on your friends, and, if you hear one, don't enjoy It. A woman can keep a secret, but she can't disguise the fact that she is keep ing it. When a man commences to seek of fice, he generally keeps it up the bal ance of his life. Almost everyone has to think to be polite: the natural impulse is to help himself first. When a man wants to demonstrate his superiority to a woman, he talks business to other men in her presence. When people form debating clubs, it is not so much with the desire of hearing other people's opinions as to tell their own. "I have my faults, but I can say this to my credit: I never had my pic ture taken in lodge clothes." Drake Watson. One of the surprising things about 1 funeral is the ease with, which the wo men of the afflicted family produce mourning clothes. There is nothing a man hates worse than to have his wife call him into her room, and say she wants to have a private talk with him. Subject for debate at the next meet ing of the Lancaster Literary society: "Resolved, That a man and his wife are not kin to each other." For the Lancaster Literary society to decide: The young women wear their hatr In fashions that older women can't imitate. Does that mean the younger generation is more capable? When you hear a very hard story on a man, and It turns out to be true, in vestigation will usually reveal that the man either has side whiskers, a goatee or parts his name In the middle. REFLECTIOXS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Presa It would ge a great happiness- to women if doctors would have bargain days to dose the children. A man can be very fond of his family when they pretend to like to have him smoke an old pipe. The girl that can blush at things she doesn't understand can under stand worse things without blushing at them. There's nothing makes a woman have more love and less respect for her husband than for him to be will ing to dress the children. A thing that makes a man about as proud of himself as he can be is to be asked to subscribe for the stock of some corporation whan he hasn't a red, cent. KANSAS COMMENT SHRINERS AND TEMPERANCE. One of the moat significant things said or done In connection with great meeting of the Shrlners at St. Paul was the remnrtr mula In the annual address of the Imperial Potentate of mo oroer, Mr. Frank C. Kounay: "Good-fellowship," he said, "depends more on the things that you think than upon the things you drink." It is related that this remark, caused great surprise, but it is also related that it had the effect of making his listeners feel that the days and nights of liquor at tne Danquet of Shrlners are at an en a. Mr. Roundy wa moderate In his other remarks concerning the old practice among Shrlners of making arcmcia.i cneer at their banquets witn champagne and kindred liquids of more numble origin, but the manner of his remarks was such as to give great encouragement to the temper ance element. In that branch of Ma sonry, that the elimination of liquor has become, through Mr. Roundy's apeecn, an unwritten law tnat win De observed in the future. It is said that Mr. Roundy's remarks were inspired by the effect that the elimination of liquors from some of me tempies or the order has naa. it appears that a small per cent of them have been givinar "drv" banauets dur ing the past few years and found that tneir success was far more satisfactory than the "wef banauets they had been giving, from every standpoint of the good-fellowship which it is the purpose- or tne order to cultivate. The friends of the temperance ten dency everywhere will regard the re marks of Imperial Potentate Roundy of the Shrlners as a long and steady step towards the abandonment of liquors at banauets generally as a means of promoting good cheer among the guests. The Shrlners are an in fluential body and their example will De rouowed In time by other organ- nations. Wichita Eagle. ROJESTVENSKY. Newspapers all over the world de voted the sob department to the Rus sian Admiral Rolestvensky. whose death was reported a couple, of days ago. They pointed out that he was a real hero all wool and a yard wide, and that his misfortunes were due entirely to bad luck. Given a fair chance there is no saying how much grass the ad miral might have cti. The sob editors agreed that a great and good man was gone, and they were doubt to call upon the two great political parties to insert in their plat forms planks demanding an interna tional wailing place, wnen the news came that the death stury was a false alarm. Rolestvensky is still alive, and win spend the balance of his days reading the nice things the papers said aDout mm. Naturally the sob editors are dis gusted, even Indignant. After pulling out tne tremeio stop and playing a dirge that fairly makes the- world shiver, it Is humiliating to find that the corpse Is sitting up pasting things m a srapbOok. If the admiral has the first instincts of a man of honor, he will take a dose of Rough on Rojestvenskys and make these obituaries good. Emporia Ga sette. FROM OTHER PENS THE DEARNESS OF MEAT. Complaint of the high price of meat comes from- England, the United States and Argentina. In England, It Is said, the greater part of the land is laid out in pasture, and agriculture there has "to a very large extent be come meat-producing and dairying. Yet it Is believed by good Judges that it is possible to rear and fatten many more sheep and cattle than are now maintained there. In Argentina where meat is dear a great area of land has been turned from pasture Into tillage, which In part explains the higher price of meat, so much talked of in the Argentine cities. The upward tendency of meat prices in the United States is likely to per sist, and It is pointed out that with the rapid growth in population, now ap proximating 90,000,000, and soon to be 120,000,000,000. both meat and milk will rise in price. The old days of abundance are not to return. In all civilized countries meat grows dearer, and this fact will compel more people to turn their attention to substitutes for expensive meats; more heed will be given to cooking, the inferior cuts of meat, which are often, when skilfully prepared, more nutritious than the ex pensive parts. .Much may be learned from the cuisine of France, that land of good sense and practiced economy. A French cook will provide an excel lent bill of fare from cuts of meat which are rejected m the average British or American household; and, also, excellent vegetable dishes and dainty salads add to the attractive ness of the menu. In a word, the dear ness of meat will stimulate sensible people to take a leaf from the French book of common sense in the kitchen. Enforced economy will make for bet ter cooking. Mexican Herald. EDUCATION IN ARGENTINA. Argentina Is regarded as one of the most progressive nations of the earth It is making great strides along all lines of civilization. Whether paying their school teachers good salaries is a cause or consequence of this progress it may not be easy to say, but the fact is that the school teaching business is put first of all duties. They do not pay out their revenues for all sorts of things and' divide up what is left among the teachers. The teacher s pay Is placed first, and after a certain length of service he is nut on the retired list and his pay goes on till the end of his life. It is said there are men arid women In the United States today who spent long years in school teaching in Argentina who now. In their old age, are paid liberal annual sums in recognition of the work they did In the South Amer ican country. As high as $2,000 is oaid to these faithful teachers. The close of a 80-year service that marks a teacher s entrance on tne retired list is made a great event, greater than the opening of an exposition ot; the in auguration of a governor. Such a high estimate of education must neces sarily make Argentina a fine country. This very fact accounts for its great advancement. There is much growling about our schools, but if that growling was changed to an effort o advance the pay of tne average teacner, ana to encourage him In his work by public exnresslon of appreciation, the effect of educational work here would be as great as It Is In this South American republic. The only way out of the disparity is for the people who appre ciate educational duty to combine and vote for no man wHo Is not a practical friend of school progress, and of mak ing education something more than the dregs of public policy. Ohio State Journal, OK KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge Is good. I will admit, Ann" &?weT' wa'v U been told. ?d,Joln.u to a dy wit. But TiS" or ma" both fame gjid gold. T v pntradletlon. beat the Dutch). r1ow 1 ra l"ey aura of this: i do not want tao know too much. i?J .'c DorM wh swell and puff lburned0"1 n,idnlht fl they've "h,wn. to m conceit enough, I wJ?d?ty the "ever learned. I hate their patronizing ways; Tn JT P$ i ot for auch In fact. I hardly think it paya. I do not want to know too much. a. i dw- 1,tu blnd, Th.W,etvaJon,by thumb rl ifJl entire'y voice and mind. SiJLi V..keep, ,me fJth and trust, 1not wnt to know too much. Borne knowledge often brines disgust Chicago N wa. The Human Tide. The "gates of Castle Garden" have """DW outward in mcent months In a striking way. In 1907 Vitre0We,re 789'748 arrivals and 155,792 departures. In 1908. the half yea!r'.,,e I have been 188.586 arrivals i aepartures. Never be fore In a whole vip rii ,n. pie of the laboring class leave this country as left In this half year. More tnan this, the Immigration adds to the total it was 70 per cent less than a year ago. And this also breaks the record for panic effects. The Springfield Republican quotes tor is3, snowing that the decline in immigration then was from a.uuu in tne nscal year to June, 1902 tO 602.909 in 19X nnrl trnm 91 i ACT in 1894 to 279.948 In 189K th.' re lative decrease In those tnan tms year. After 187$ the falling ",L aoout one-naif in the two fol lowing years and about two-thirds in tnree years. Hitherto the greatest de cline was rrom 788,900 arrivals. In 188Z to XJ4.Z00 In 1888 a smaller r1 attve shrinkage than the present year. Possibly a greater proportion of re cent immigrants were labor adventur ers, so to speak that is, our abound ing prosperity attracted immigrants merely for the lob. Men mv have. calculated tne cost of passage and the wages wnicn the certainty of work offered, and taken chances on a visit as an Investment. With hard times they incontinently returned. This theory seems to be borne out by the impression lert by the returning aliens that they did not Intend to come back nere. Be this as It may. the fact abides and the drain on rough and unskilled labor, in western Pennsylvania not ably. Is so great that the iron and steel Industry is apprehensive lest there be a lack of laborers when prosperity re turns. But when two Jobs are again hunting one man we shall have a re newal of immigration. The human tide sets easily these days between Eu rope and America, and its recent flow the other way may have its useful les son in demonstrating that it is a small thing to cross the ocean Indianapo lis News. Ct Ran Itself to Death. A little black cat which A. G. Lackey owned Is dead. This will perhaps be good news for the gang of hoodlums that tied a can to the tall of "Blaekle" and laughed to see him run. After the cat got out of range he kept on run ning. Judging from his appearance, and he got as far as his home several times. x He would not let any of us go near him," said Mr. Lackey. "Unlike a dog, which, similarly treated, runs home for help, a poor cat seems to lose faith in all human beings after being put to torture. So my poor old pet simply ran himself to death trying to get away from that, to him, terrible Instrument that was trying to beat him to death. Blackle' came home at last to stay. and he died the next day. I have only one regret to add to the one about his death I wish the whole army of boys who think it sport to Impose on a cat or a dog could have seen the dismay expressed in the eyes of that unfor tunate cat as he dragged itseir to my feet to lie there and die. They would be friends of dumb beasts the balance of their lives." Kansas City Journal. Cottonseed Oil Industry. In the great cotton belt of the south are 848 mills engaged In crush ing cotton seed for its oil and other products. In these mills are z.bus presses, and in connection with them 52 gin stands and 3,126 linters. it la estimated that in the production of cottonseed oil and by-products more than $85,000,000 is invested. The mills annually use about 4,000.000 tons of seed, costing about $60,000,- 000. When made Into oil, cake, hulls. and linters. and other products. Its value Is about $90,000,000. At the present time but little more than half the total seea product or tne country Is crushed. Chicago Journal. Whale Milking: a Disappearing Art. I wish to protest against the mis leading article concerning the milking of whale in the Bay of Fundy. From this article the casual raeder would Judge that whale milking was as easy as the milking of the domestic goat, while In fact the milking of the whale is most difficult and with the present generation of whale milkers will be come a lost art. Further, it is not the milking of the whale in itself which calls for intrepid daring, firm muscles and Iron nerves, but the herding and tending of the suckling whales. A suckling whale, be it known, is no Jersey calf or Angora kid that can be held between the knees. A lively, playful suckling whale will sometimes run twenty miles to dodge the corral during the milking hour, not because It needs the milk, but from that ab normal curiosity so common to the young. From a Letter In the New York Sun. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. Blessings often come disguised. The homely girl needs no chaperone. It's always the other fellow who ought to be satisfied with what he has. The man who claims he never breaks his word is really stretching the truth. There Is plenty of room at the top, because so many who get there fall off. Some people are too apt to confuse the mark of esteem with the dollar mark. Tell the average married man he doesn't look It and he will feel terribly flattered. It seems strange that trouble should ever be unexpected. There are always so many people to predict it. Mrs. Muggins "Has your new girl broken anything yet?" Mrs. Bugglns "No; she hasn't even cracked a smile." Wlgg "Harduppe has more nerve than any man I know. I have never seen him embarrassed." Wagg "Ex cept financially." 'Tls better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." quot ed the Wise Guy. "Well, both have their advantages,' added the Simple TOE EVENING STORY Tins First Boarder. By Temple Bailey.) It was so different from tho usur.I bummer boarding place that Dmio.i .topped short and eyed doubtfully th wide lawn, the missive stone house and the garden fUmlng with Juu roses. He even looked at the great mastiff who sauntered toward him with a sus picious eye. "Look here, old fellow," he said, "are you in a fairy tale, or is this Just an every day fact?" "Duke, come here," called a clear voice and the dog bounded back to the porch. "Are you the princess?" he asked of the owner of the clear voice. The girl flushed and stared. "I don't understand she stam mered. Denton laughed. "I beg pardon," he apologized, "for boring you with my fancies. But this place is so beau tiful that I thought I had stepped out of real life Into fairyland, and that the dog was the monster that guarded the gate, and that you were the enchanted princess." The girl's eyes twinkled. "I'm not a princess," she told him, "I'm your landlady." Something of disappointment crept Into Denton's expression. "Then you are Mrs. Carter?" he hazarded. "Miss Carter," she corrected, and he looked relieved. "In the letter that I wrote you I signed myself Mehltable Carter, and I suppose you thought I had gray hairs and wrinkles." "The name did suggest them." he mused, watching her sparkling face. "Every one around hera calls me Belle," she explained, "but of course when one writes letters to prospective boarders one realizes that a dignified name is an asset." "Certainly," he agreed, and settled back in his chair, content to listen and look. But his hostess was more energetic. "I'll show you your room," she said, and led the way through the spacious hall and up the stairs to the second story. When Denton came down a little later, and found his landlady walking in the rose garden, he said to her: "You needn't tell me. This is an en chanted castle. Who ever heard of white bathtubs and nickel trimmings and pond lily friezes and Circassian walnut furniture for ten dollars a week?" A little anxious frown furrowed Miss Carter's forehead. "I was afraid I was charging too much," she said. "You see you are my first boarder." It appeared on further conversation that there were to be six other board ers, and they were to arrive at 7:S0. "Five of them are maiden ladles." Miss Carter explained, "and I told them they might bring their cats and parrots "And the other one?"-Denton de manded. "Is a man," said Miss Carter; "and he wants to bring his automobile." Denton gazed pensively across the garden toward the purple hills. "Alas," Ea sighed, "and I brought only a type writer. The automobile is the dragon that I must slay." She stiffened a little at that. "I don't think I quite understand," she said. "Of course not,", Denton agreed quite cheerfully, "as a writer of stories I deal much in metaphor. It isn't to be expected that you would under stand. But you will some day. He switched to other topics, and learned that the beautiful house, with Its beautiful furniture, had been the girl's summer home. That the failure of her father In business and his ab sence to fill a position in another city. made her decide that the house must support Itself or be sold. So she had advertised for boarders, and, with two old and trusted servants, she was go ing to make it pay. "We raise all of our vegetables," she confided, "and we have our cows and make butter and there are plenty of chickens and eggs "Don t say any more," Denton beg ged, "I am hungry enougn as it is with out hearing of real milk and butter and eggs. She laughed. "The train Is due now. she said; "as soon as the other board ers get here we will have supper." Contrary to Denton s expectations. the six old maids proved to be delight ful company. Three of them were teachers, one of them wrote for the magazines, one, having a private for tune, was something of a globe trot ter, and the sixth, being domestically inclined, had brought the cat and par rot The one man was the object of Den ton's special observation. His name was Nesselrode. "He makes me think of a pudding. Denton remarked to Miss Carter. "I don't think he looks that way at all," Miss Carter said, indignantly. "I think she is very handsome, if he is Btout. "Oh. I didn't mean his looks." Den ton remarked resignedly, "but his name." Nesselrode, however, proved to be very good company, and it became quits a matter of course that the two men should spin through the country everv morning In tne big motor ear. In the afternoon Nesselrode always took Miss Carter, and In the back seat he packed two, and sometimes three, of the old ladies. "And I stay at home with the cat and parrot," Denton remarked indig nantly to Miss Carter one evening when he had carried ner on to tne rose garden, "for the old ladies who don't go with you always take their naps at that time, and If it wasn't for the cat and parrot I should die of loneliness." "It's too bad." Miss Carter mur mured sympathetically. "Too bad," Denton flared, "It's pre posterous. He takes me in the morn ing, and you in the afternoon, and I baven't had an hour's comfortable conversation with you since that first day." "When you thought I was a prin cess." said Miss Carter, demurely. I still think you are a princess," said Denton, ardently. He leaned to ward her, and the moonlight showed his pale, eager face. "I still think you are a princess, and now that I have found you In your enchanted castle, I yearn to carry you away with me to my kingdom There was a rustle in tne leaves be hind them. Miss Carter sat up straight. "Who is It?" she cried, sharply, "who is there?" "Polly, fouy, saia a cnuckitng. wavering voice, "pretty, pretty Polly." Then a deepr voice Doomed beyond the bushes. "Is that you, miss carter? i am looking for Miss Pierce's parrot?" "I can t even propose to you witn- out his butting In," Denton com plained the next night when he had Mlse Carter to himself for a moment in .a corner of the dark porch. "Say yes' befor he finds us here, iTincess, and "How do you know Miss car ter's voice trembled through the darkness. -I do-noi-know" he-sidrsocuyr i can only hope" h." rtached out hI buil to take "8- his fingers touched something warm and velvety. f.i'in- rr ur, UP." came a confiding i HJL 1murmu"'. Just as Nesselrode lumbering figure loomed near the steps. ''?ld Mls Pierce's pussy cat come ?I Z iJre' nton? I've been sent to look her up." a a a a r-Tha3 nlht a brs-lar entered Miss Carter's house. Denton was the first Xnfiw tUe alaPm' nd he showed the rmll LTep, p,lea UD m th" middle of the table in the dining room, with the corners of the cloth twisted over "r aw a light." he said, "and I ame V1 1 8UPPse he was scared T' i htLd noi ben to ed Miss Carter, very beautiful In a rosy dressing dbwn, examined the sil ver. I think everything Is hera," she Bald. "You are sure that nothing Is gone rrom your room Denton asked. "He &ht nave Kon there first." Miss Carter flew upstairs, with the six old ladies at her heels. When he came down she was as white as chalk. "My pearl necklace is gone," she said. Denton turned to Nesselrode. "Per. haps if you took your automobile and rollowed the man you might get the pearls !!5ut Neewlrode protested. There are no 'buts' In the service or a lady," Denton reminded him gravely. And after Nesselrode had whissed awa7' and the mi oll ladles had re tired to their rooms to talk it oven. Denton detained Miss Carter. And when he had pulled down the shades of every window, and when he had closed every door, he put his hand in his pocket and pulled out the pearl necklace. "All s fair," he said, "in love "But she gasped. "There was no burglar." Denton declared. "I found the pearls on the porch after you went In. and that gave me the Jdea. and I mussed up the things on the table. It was the only way that I could get to see you again tonight and I couldn't stand another day of Nesselrode' monopolizing Slowly a smile curved Miss Carter' lips. "Any one would know you were a writer of stories," she said, "there were so many easier ways.", "I couldn't think of any' Denton said, "so I tried this." He went toward her. "Nesselrode will be back presently, we must be quick oh, princess, is it 'yes' Her cheeks were as rosy as her pretty gown. "Of course when the prince storms the castle the princess surrenders." As he kissed her they heard the "chug-chug" of the returning auto mobile. Nesselrode came In, puffing. "Not a sign "he began, and stopped. The two people by the table were smiling radiantly. "I am so sorry," Miss Carter said, as she held out her hand in which glimmered a little heap of milk-white beads, "I am bo sorry that you had your drive for nothing, Mr. Nessel rode, but she hesitated, and then ton found the pearls!" (Copyrighted, 1908, by Associate Literary Press.) HUMOR OF TNE DAY Conductor This hera transfer expired an .hour ago. The Lady (digging her fingers In her purse, snapplnglr) No wonder, with not a single ventilator open in the whole car. Puck. "Some people have queer ideaa of senti ment." "For example?" "I know a man who treasures the slip per his mother ues1 to spank him with." Birmingham-Age Herald. He was having some words with her chaperon. "I'llI'll kiss her right under your nose." he said defiantly. "Oh, well," said the lady, "vicarious kissing like that I can see no objection to." Boston Transcript. "Does your husband play poker?" "I don't know. When he comes home broke I always feel that It is necessary for him to sit down and think undisturb ed, and when he aeems to be flush 1 con sider it foolish to ask embarrassing ques tions." Chicago Record-Herald. "I understand," said the old-time friend, "that you are getting right exclusive." "Well," answered Mr. Cumrox, "that's what mother and the girls call it." "What do you call it?" "Plain 'lonesome'." Washington Star. She Have you never made love to any other girl? HiwKn never. Hnj rtmt -in tnv honrvr don't you know? sue wen. run away, tnere s a good tei Inw And ret momm nractice. u voti rtnn 't shape at all well at present. Stray stones "When a woman packs her trunk shs puts her soul In it." "And when a man packs his trunk ha puts his feet into It." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Pa. when are you going to take me to the park?" "Walt until tne eooi or tne evening, my son." "But. ps. 'epose there lsnt any?" Bal timore American. 'Oh. ves. Mabel Is very domestic. She spends a great deael of her time in the kitchen." CooklngT" "Nd. counting and classifying germs." Cleveland Plain Deealer. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Friendship is a branch of self-love. When a man is easily bought the buyer is usually sold. Many a politician who expects a plum Is handed a lemon. Ona of the worst things under the sun Is a shady reputation. If some men were compelled to pay as they go they would stay. A woman is naturally off color when she removes her complexion. We always feel sorry for a dignified man when the taffy is being passed. Some people never know when to stop and others never know when to begin. What puzzles a small boy is how his mother can stand to wear such a hot slipper. A good dinner has about the same effect on a man that a good cry has on a woman. Run for office and read the opposi tion newspapers if you would see yourself as others see you. Beware of th man who gives you a tip on the races. He may have an Ingrown grudge against you. Don't try to convince a man that he Isn't as clever as he thinks he is un- less you have no use for his friend ship. Only when a girl has a man whera he must face the person with her or pose as the defendant In a breach-of- promlse suit will she admit that ah Aee corns. J
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