The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-19
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The Governor and Mrs Stubs will
give a reception at the governor s
house, Thursday evening at S;Su
O'Clock for the state officers, the su-
preme court justices, and the mem
bers of both houses of the legislature
and their wives This function viii
officially open the new administration
socially and will mark the beginning
of the Stubs regime at the COVER
nor's house The Chief Justice ana
Mrs. Johnston and Lieutenant Cover
nor and Mrs. Fitzgerald and the
Speaker and Mrs. Dolley will be in
the receiving line with the Governor
and Mrs. Stubs.
Some alleged sentimentalists have
been putting on big show of in
signation because a Topeka woman
to her, refused to either sell it or give
it away, and had it shot Dr. Eva
Harding had two horses about twenty
years old, Old Jack and Old Maud.
Old Jack was of course of no value
having outlived his usefulness be-
tween the shafts, but Old Maud. be-
ing a finely bred animal and in good
condition, was still valuable as brood
mare. Both were equally dear to the
heart of their owner, but she couldn
care for them properly as she does
not maintain stables of her own and
was Obliged to trust them to care
takers who had proven unreliable
She put them on a farm last summer
but learned a few weeks later that
the people she was paying to pasture
and care for her pets were driving
Old Maud on a milk wagon. She
brought them back to town and as
she continued to have trouble in hir-
ing suitable care for them, resolved
TO have them shot, surely a humane,
reasonable and justifiable decision.
But this was where her troubles be-
H. IL
regard the cruel and inhuman treat
ment of animals of all sorts, who be-
HeVe it perfectly right and proper to
drown kittens. can or muZzle dogs,
who oppose the Intervention of the
law in the cases of the mistreatmentI
of horses and laugh at the Humane
society's efforts to abate the abuses
of the dog pOund-such men as these
were indignant at the death of Old
Maud. To shoot Old Jack, that was
right, of course, Old Jack no longer
had a money value and it was the best
thing his owner could do in the cir
cumstances. But because Old Maud
was worth three or four hundred dol
lars to kill her was cruel brutal and
unpard enable. It was with difficulty
that DIR. Harding persuaded anybody
to be her mares executor Noble
humanitarians came forward with the
generous offer to take Old Maud off
her owners hands. if DIR. Harding
would but spare her life. AS the same
people showed no solicitude for Old
Jack, DR. Harding was surely justified
in regarding their offers with sus-
picion. What she wanted for both
her old horses, equally worthless to
her, and equally dear, was good care
and comfortable quarters for the rest
of their days. These she had been
unable to buy, and she had no reason
to believe that they would fare bet
ter in the hands of any one to whom
she might sell or give them.
1t will be found, in the last
analysis, that many fine sentiments
have. like the indignation over the
death of Old Maud, pecuniary basis.
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Invitations were issued Saturday by
the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority of the
University of Kansas for their spring
party which will take place Friday,
January %.
.
The Saturday Night club will give an
SS-ster roast Friday night at the Gre
merle at which the wives of the menl-
bers will be the guests. The occasion
OF the spread is the gift of a barrel of
oysters which will be sent to the club
by Mr.. o. L. Clarke of Galveston,
Texas.
There is an old-fashioned proverb
ASK me no questions and I'll tell you
no IieS'' which deserves moro aftep-