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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-29

lOWdIuS llle pllOlle
MO, mol" says he "I-I'm cor
~ nered. But l had to do it,
Shorty l couldn't stand it any
longer, living the way l have, like
a charity boarder. Why, l didn't
even have the standing of a paid
servant! l took what was tossed
to me. But you can't understand.
You've never been a hanger-on.
True, l wasn't hungry or cold; l
could order clothes and such things.
But how do you think it seemed to
me to go for weeks without dollar
in my pocket? 1t was hell, that's
what it was!"
So YOU thought you'd rope in a
nice girl to share it, eh?" says |.
Huyler lets out a groan Il know
I'm a cad" says he. And l
didn't intend to see her again. But
Nivie was staying at the Ridleys,
and we met while out riding, and
Hang it all, Shorty, I'm awfullv
gone on Vivie! I'd do anything for
her"
"Good!" says 1. Begin by send
ing her home, then"
Home!" says he, lookin' kind of
wild.
Sure" saysI I. Remember, Huy-
Ter, you're considerable tangled up
Just now You've got lot of things
to unsnarl before you're in any
shape to do the clipping act. Sup
pose you run down and tell her it's
all Off
He slumps into chair, covers his
hands, and groans out that he can't.
Then l suppose it's up to me, t
relish the job" says l, grabbin' my
But you-you won't tell her t
Huyler.
What do you take me for?"' says
MISS WIVES some surprised to
AvA of Huyler: but that amt a mar
she gets when l lets out that Huyle
but won't she please drive home w
for him?
"Why-why," says she, lookin'
don't believe l understand"
"Oh, yes, YOU do He, he!" says !,
idiotic grin that was meant to be sootI
he'll explain later. It's joke, yes?
Oh, l was the merry deceiver, | We
she's wonderin why no one ever told
l was before, I've given her number
and off she goes.
XIHEN / gets back 1 finds Huyl
" and down the office with his
pockets, lookin' real tragic. And bla
what was comm next. | stands by
waitin' to see if he wouldn't offer SON
all of sudden he stops in front of the
his eye on that blamed s1nartsettv n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-20
JAYHAWKER JOTS
The Lindshorg Record is boosting

The Lindsborg Record is boosting
baseball for that town.
Winfield is hollering hooray for
spring. The peach and apricot trees
are blossomfng.
A Miami county farmer hid $50 in
an incubator and 1t Matched only
trouble. His wife sold the incubator
Irene Isenhart. six year old girl.
was jumping the rope a few days ago
at Wichita when she slipped. fell and
broke her collar Doe.
Bob Mahaffa and Chalon Guard
went on a wolf hunt near Beloit not
long ago and brought back the car
cass of a forty pound black wolf.
A crowd of young people from the
Southwestern college at Winfield
gave an entertainment at Bluff City
and reported a good time. The peo-
pie Of Bluff City have not been heard
from.
An Atchison man went away from
Atchison five years ago when he was
drunk He returned last week and is
still drunk. People who know him
wonder If he has been drunk all these
years.
man was actually arrested for run
ming an automobile faster than the
law allows. J. F. McCandless was the
victim and his carelessness cost him
$500.
Ex-Governor Morrill, is serving his
thirty-ffth year as superintendent Of
the Congregational Sunday school in
Hiawatha. He holds the record for
long distance Sunday school office
holding.
Between thirty and forty men in
southwestern F'inney county spent
last Saturday and part Of Sunday
night fighting prairie fire. In turn,
hay a re q To he ox.i,, 20 In
it hot for the man who started the
conflagration.
There was a man in Atchison a
couple of days ago who went from
drug store to drug store asking If he
couldn't possibly get a bottle of whis-
ky He was turned down as fast as
he showed up. But this unusual &C.
currence is explained by the Globe in
the statement that the druggists
thought him a spotter.
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DON'T TRUST PREDICTIONS.

A story is being related in the eastern
newspapers that forcibly illustrates the
double danger Of making predictions
and then acting on them. About a year
ago a man in Massachusetts, thought
he had g. sure tip that he would die
within six months. He proceeded to
act upon it. He was man Of consider
able wealth, but was so sure in his own
mind about the date of his death that
he gave away all he had to friends and
charitable institutions. leaving himself
barely enough to subsist on during the
six months that he expected to remain
on earth.
That is the first part Of the story.
The sequel came few days ago when
he was sent to the poor house. He fail
ed to die as he had predicted and those
to whom he had given everything he
possessed refused to aid or support him
when there was nothing to be gained
by it. If we wanted to point moral,
or a couple Of them, we should advise
people not to put too much faith in pre-
dictions. We should also advise them
not to give away all of their means
while living. This latter bit of advice
is probably gratuitous as few OF them
are inclined to do so.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

[F'rom the Atchison Globe.]
There is constantly growing de-
mand that other people be good.
An Atchison man says his prayers
in French and swears in German.
The man who most frequently COM
plains Of bad luck is the first to go
fishing in the spring.
A womans idea Of good luck is to
have the fire whistle blow when her
hair is combined, and she is ready to
run. a-
So far, statistfcians have figured on
everything except how many times the
mother of six Children wipes noses
during her career as a mother.
When women attends a funeral they
carry two handkerchiefs, and go into
the house, while the men stay out in
the yark and smoke. There Is no use
fuss1ng; men, won't behave properly.
Occasionally there is a very worthy
and capable woman who. when you
come to know her well, impresses you
with the fact Of how miserable she
would make some man if she had a
chance.
Though the women claim to be more
honest than men, they will cheat at
cards. You will seldom find one who
plays a strictly honest game. The only
difference in woman's cheating and a
mans is that a woman will cheat for
fun, and a man will cheat for what he
is getting out of it.
1t is said by a merchant who has had
number of young men in his. employ
for great many years, that the first
week a man is married he will take
two hours for dinner, the next week he
will take only an hour, and before the
month is out, he is most likely taking
his lunch down town.
There is a great deal said about mar
ried women looking Old within a few
years after their marriage, but little is
said about their husbands. There are
two sides to the story No married
man ever looked so young or happy as
| q bachelor of the same age. All the age.
the WEAKNESS, the unhappy looks are
not to be found in the wife's face. You
will find it very often in the husbands.
Women oftener take their husbands
| to live with their fathers than men
| take their wives. The number Of old
| gentlemen who are imposed upon in
| this way Is frightful- A man who is
| not able to take care Of a wife should
| not be allowed to marry. There are
| societies for the prevention of cruelty
to horses. but people only smile when
a woman takes her husband and chill
dren to live with her worn out old
father. He is too old to work hard
and the noise of the children make him
fretful, but people only smile and think
| 1t is a good joke.
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MUNICIPAL LIGHTING.

Some information on municipal
lighting that will be of especial inter-
est to Topekans at this time is found
in an article written for the current
number of the Municipal Journal and
Engineer by Charles Claude Casey on
the operation by the city Of st. Louis
of six plants for lighting the public
buildings and for operating a short
municipal railway owned by the town.
Nearly thirty thousand dollars a year
has been saved to the city by these
municipal plants.
$50 successful has been the opera
ton of these several small plants"
writes Mr.. Casey, that business, civic
and public improvement associations
have been agitating the municipal
ownership of an immense plant to
light the streets and parks, now cost
ing three-quarters of a million dollars
year under contract. So popular has
this feeling become that some of the
present city officials were elected On a
ticket with a municipal light plant
as one of the principal planks in the
platform. BY popular consent of the
people a fund of $4,000 a year has
been ordered set aside to pay the ex-
penses of installing such a plant,
which would cost a sum equal to the
contract price of lighting the city for
three or four years."
1.-THE city was practically driven to
municipal ownership continues Mr..
Casey, "as a protection to itself and is
now finding the venture so profita BILE
and so easy under the administration
of the past few years that it is official
iy considering the much more impor-
tant venture mentioned. Prior to 1901
the city was paying the unreasonable
| sum of 10 cents per kilowatt hour
| for it's light in all of its public build
| ings. There was not a semblance of
competition in the contracts, the light
| ing company having absorbed all of
| its competitors. 1t was then that the
municipal ownership spirit rose up and
demanded relief. An ordinance was
prepared by the board of public i'm
provements and passed by the munich
| pal assembly authorizing the construc-
| ton of two plants, one at the new city
| hall and one at the city insane asylum
1.-The move was a hard blow to the
| lighting corporation and a hard fight
! was put up against the passage of the
measure. The fight failed, however,
/ and as last resort the company
| threatened to cut off the current at
| the expiration of its contract, allowing
| only three months in which to put the
two plants into operation-and refuse
to bid on renewal. This argument so
impressed the mayor that he vetoed
| the ordinance. The contract, let at
the regular time in September. was a
surprise to everyone, the lighting COM
pany coming down in its price from
13 cents to 6A cents per kilowatt.
Everything was lovely and mu-
nicipal ownership slumbered until the
end of that contract, when the light
ing company raised the price to Y
cents. The wrath Of the municipal
ownership advocates broke out anew
and the ordinance vetoed by the mayor
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was reintroduced, passed by the mu-
nicipaI assembly, signed by the mayor
the same who had vetoed it before
and the plants were put in operation
in July, 1903. The following contract
with the lighting company for the
other buildings dropped from " to
cents, and in 1904 further drop was
made to 4 u cents. at which it has
stood since that time. Other plants
quickly supplemented those two. and
municipal ownership was pronounced
success, at least in creating COM
petition which brought the lighting
company to terms. Even If it had to
light the two buildings at a loss on
the basis of u cents. the reduction
secured in the balance Of the contract
would Justify the move. the cost for
lighting the remaining buildings by
contract having been reduced from
100000 to $4,000 a year. That the
plants are not a failure from an i'm
mediate financial standpoint. however.
will be understood when 1t is known
that the official reports for the several
plants show them to be making cur
rent at cents per kilowatt hour"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-20
FRON OTHER PENS
FRANCE IN MOROCCO.

France has decided to send 1000
more soldiers to Morocco. They are
needed; and the chances are that
good many more will be needed I'm
der the A1geciras convention the
French and Spanish soldiers are in
Morocco for the purpose Of protecting
the lives and property Of foreign resi-
dents. where such protection is need
ed, and of organizing a permanent
police force in certain coast towns As
a matter of fact the French are up
against a systematic armed resistance
on the part of the Moors, which diff
fers in no particular respect from a
state of war. The dispatches speak
from time to time of the heavy losses
of the Moors in these recurring en-.
counters. In the first place, human
lives are cheaper in Morocco than
horses; and in the second place, g.
native population engaged in efforts
to drive foreigners out Of their land
usually gain in determination by pre-
1iminary losses. It was so in this
country with the farmers at Bunker
Hill; and it is much more likely to be
SO with the Moorish tribesmen, who
regard fighting as more or less the
proper work of men, and who have in
their tolerably sincere religious faith
in one God an additional incentive to
persistent Observation-Disclosures Cour-
ant.
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A Razorless Race.
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TF,rom the Philadelphia Record.1
Should a peer be judged by appear
ances?
Watered stock won't exactly help a
fellow to get in the swim.
When the Powers of Europe get to-
gether they are pow-wowers.
All the soap in the world wouldn't
give some men a clean record.
The automobile is not a back number,
but each one has a license tag.
Many a woman looks daggers at
another woman who dresses to kill.
There is quite a difference between
footing a bill and making a kick about
it.
Even when a man plays the part Of
blind man the actor should look the
part.
Nell-"They say the hustle is coming
hack" Belle-'.Wel1, where would you
expect it to come r
Tommy-"Pop, why do they say that
money talks?" Tommy's Pop-"Well
nv son, most money has a woman's
head on it"
wigg-"Saphedde always tries to
make himself at home" Wagg-'Yes,
and merely succeeds in making other
people wish he was.
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CROSSING THE SAHARA.

One of the feats that still tempts the
French explorer and savant is crossing
the Sahara. The latest expedition, that
of Felix Dubois, who has just returned
to Paris, set out from Biskra in South
ern Algeria, in April. 1907, and proceed
ed by way of Fort MacMahon and the
oasis of Tuat to the Hoggar plateau,
which lies directly under the Tropic of
Cancer. With an elevation ranging
from $500 to 10000 feet, the Hoggar pos
sesses an August temperature of 95 de-
grees, whereas at Tidikelt, in the Tuat
oasis, four degrees further from the
equator, the temperature in June some
times mounts to 100 degrees. At Tit, in
Hoggar, NJ. Dubois came across grot-
to containing inscriptions and an altar
which he Is inclined to regard as monu-
ments of a former Lbyo-Egyptian
civilization. From Hoggar the route
lay along the line followed by Laperrine
in his southwark journey Of 1904 to
Timiaouine, where he was met in April
by Thevenet, coming north from the
Niger. NJ. Dubois thus duplicated, sin
gIe-handed, the joint enterprise of
Laperrine and Thevenet. He proceeded
by way Of Timissao, Tin1iaouine and In
Ouzel to Goa on the Niger. In condf-
lions on that stream he found, after
thirteen years, far-reaching changes.
The Niger, as far as Timbuctu, was a
civilized waterway. There were steam
boats and telephones, where short
time ago cannibalism prevailed. The
natives were prosperous, as they al
ways are in the eyes of patriotic
writer's
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FORESTS AND WATERWAYS.

There Is a direct INTERPOLATION between
the projects for improving our inland
waterways and for the preservation of
our forest areas and the reforesting of
waste lands. This is very conclusively
shown in a current publication of the
department Of agriculture having espec-
ial reference to the watersheds Of the
Southern Appalachian mountains. To
store and regulate the flow of the rivers
is the first step toward insuring the
constancy of navigation. We have al
ready so far cut away our forest
growths in the Northern Atlantic states
that we have as result succession
of water floods and famines. We can
not undo the work of forest ravage with
any greater rapidity than we have
pushed the work of destruction. It has
taken us a hundred years to destroy
our noble forests; it will take another
hundred years to make needful repair
In the meantime we shall have to pro-
vide artificial storage for the water that
now goes to waste by a system of reser-
voirs. This is an engineering POSSIBLE
ity that has been very conclusively
demonstrated. The conservation of
waterpower and the insurance OF con-
tinuous navigability for our more inn
portant rivers are objects of such adj
mitted commercial advantage as to
warrant the necessary Initial outlay
and thereby make certain profitable
return on the cost Of the work The
rivers can be made to pay their way
Philadelphia Record.
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HUAOR or THE Day

Are you one of those mean-spirited
men. who ask their wives what they DO
with the money they receive ~? ,,os,.,
bridge whist. '-washington Star.
.-The kind that think they have no trou-
bss as long az they can nane
80 woman. you treasure another mans
photograph"
portrait of yourself. when you had hair
Louisville Courier-Journai
Mrs. Gaswell (making a calD-Ah. see
YOU have here a volume of poems. I'm
ashamed to confess it, Mrs. HighmIis, but
I never could appreciate blank verse.
,o Mrs Mrs nGasweiiEChicago Trbans.
''Plodder tells me he's still doing bust
the old stand ns d."MPhi la Press.
People are inapiorssa to shop early. But
II fear not. At least. not while the
president remains silent on the subject"
-Pittsburg Post.
Girls who have passed through two
leap years since attaining narriageable
aE viii VI 1sSs ers saet Saas the
MY boy. II you want to stay in the
public eye
Eyes. dad?'
Don't be. a human cinder."-Kansas
City Journal
When a man encounters q bunko game
he nearly always loses faith in human
nature instead of losing faith in his own
Observation-Disclosures News
she-Are SO many of the congressman
named William?
He-why do you ask such question?
She-Because noticed that about all
they did when the session opened was to
introduce Bills.-Clevefand Plain Dealer.
DO you really love me. GeorgeT'
DO I? expect to live on ham sand
wiches for the next six weeks.
City Journal
I'm going to fight the great white
plague" -,
IT can buy a snow shovel, can't r.
Ledger.
Look here waiter. where are those soft
boiled eggs orderedF
sfDe cook boiled 'ern too hard, sab, so he
had to bof1 'em over again Louisville
Herald
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IRON the Chicago News.1
The more q man doesn't know the less
he doubts.
Many a wise-looking man IN unable to
deliver the goods.
A pretty woman's smile often wrinkles
a mans purse.
When a sailor falls overheard he feels
as If he were all in
The experience a man buys IL ALWAYS
delivered a little too late.
Go to o tailor for wedding suit ana III,
a lawyer for divorce suit.
Almost every day the average man won
ders why he did such a foolish thing
Some men get out of practice because
they spend all their time preaching
woman never asks a man il he Iowa
her unless she Is sure of the answer
Did you ever meet q successful man who
told you what he was going to do nerfS
This il undoubtedly q dirty-loolxinr ola
world to the man who Is too lazy to olesn
his s2ectacles.
If you would have a perfect home. an
you have to do IS to pay the freight ana
let your wife run It. anu
Once in great while a woman acfra,1
believes that her husband knows as yns,nk
as he thinks he knows Sn
There may be some kind of future 49,
ishment for bachelors, but most nnarrtas
men b>ia>ve they get theirs right here -
earth. -
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SOUNDS you HEAR Ar NIcHT


Wnen lying on your downy bed
ana sleep Is overdue,
Dut SUI refuses to come round
Ana make a date with you
although the world outside is dead
And not a soul is near
Its startling then and strange indeAd
fne noises that you hear.
\ gu lie there counting sheep, perhaps.
10 make the sleep man come
Wnen from the corner of the room
Ihere starts q low, soft hum.
w nile you are guessing at the cause
II IadeS and grows more faint
Ut breaks out in another place
Just like a new complaint
outside from time to time you hear
A PARKWAY report
mat seems to be pistol shot
Or something of that sort
inen suddenly noise begins,
Like rafting of the tin,
winch makes you think a burglar bold
Is surely breaking in
Each sound is greatly multiplied.
A door across the street
Slammed by a wayward wind sounds like
The booming of a fleet
AS Tor the creaking of the house.
1t gives you such fright,
They drive you to distraction quite
Inc sounds you hear at night
Nashville American
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smile lowered around her lips. Her
heart was beating fast now, but her
lips frightened. She sprang out Of bed
and threw on q dressing gown She
ran quickly to the wall and stopped
with her lips close to the wrought
iron cover.
Hello. she called.
"Hello!"
rs that the man from Van Norton
& Hemphilps?"
Yes, madam
Are you fixing the furnacer'
Yes: it is in pretty bad shape"
is there any heat in it at alp
No, am standing inside"
can any one hear us?''
have closed all the hampers but
this one"
Are you cold?'
land
why don't you go to the kitchen and
get warm?"
II ana happier here"
That is a very odd place to be hap
by, inside a furnace, O'Clock in the
morning, dark, thermometer down to
zero. You must feel quite hilarious"
Il am more hilarious and less cold
than was at last night"
why last night, may I ask?"
THE cause of the fall in tempera-
ture was a letter which registered
about so degrees below zero Fahren-
heit.''
Didn't you mean 1t sop
Are you quite sure you know who
amp"
Are you sure you know who amr'
oh: Howard, can you ever forgive
me? I am SO miserable. I heard your
voice and couldn't let you go without
at least saying 'goodby. Did you know
I was here?"
Yes, Nina, the addresses were the
same. How soon can you be down here
and get this ring vOI1rs7n
Darling, do you forgive me, and do
you really love me still?"
Love YOU. darling? I counted the
minutes all the way home. had just
uD.''
Then you knew it was I?''
mo, dear, but I do now! I was so
happy to hear a voice like yours that
fairly laughed out loud. Darling, do
hurry down. If can't see your dear
face in two minutes I'll climb UP this
pipe"
What did you think of my terrible
note, Howard; tell me?"
What! The sassy little letter you
wrote yesterday? Didn't pay any at
tention to it, sauce box! Are you
coming down or are you not? 1 am
going to turn on all the hampers and
every one can hear what you say. Now,
will you conner"
"Just one little word more, Howard.
What did you come out here so early
| fort"
"To see you, of course, silly. what
else?"
And all that noise
| did 1t on purpose to wake You up.
You didn't think I was going to wait
| any longer, did your shamelessly.
| Howard, I cried all night
| You deserved to-" severely.
| "And Howard
A warning rattle of the hampers in
terrupted her. She laughed happily. .
| "All right, dear, in two minutes"
| and something that sounded suspi-
| ciously like a kiss wendell its lonely
way through the crooked tin pipe
| copyrighted, 1908, by the Associated
| Literary Press.)
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Writing stories is comparatively easy
to selling them and getting them pub
liShed.
There are no women so nervous that
the continual rustic of a silk skirt an
noys them.
X X
It's all right to think Ibsen's plays
are stupid but it shows a lack of culture
to express such thoughts.
Most folks are satisfied with a square
deal only when they are unable to get
a little the best of one.
X X
When fellow gets to the point where
he cannot keep his mind on business.
where his appetite is gone and he can
not sleep, he'd better marry the girl.