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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

liant flower garden with unseeing
eyes, thinking of the time when she,
100, had lived only for the time when
he would come back.
It was the opinion of everyone
wnen the curtain rose on "Margue-
rite" in her softly clinging satin, a
daisy in her slender hands, that it
was the fairest picture to them all.
Isn't she Iovely?" said Lawrence
Carter to the elderly man beside him
whose acquaintance he had made on
the train that afternoon.
There was no answer but turning.
Lawrence saw that mis- companion
was staring thoughtfully at the pro-
gram in his hands.
DO you know hero he asked at
last
DO II" Then with a little tender
laugh, "she's-mine. My sweetheart
The elder man shook his head ST.
lentiy After a long pause he spoke
I'D like to meet her. I think
knew her people some oars ago,
back in Indiana
Yes. they used to live there. a
good many years ago, though. At
ter this next tableau there's be
dance and I'll introduce you" an
swered the other.
In the shadow of the vines the
-@--4~~~CONAA
pleaded a sudden headache after
dressing the girl in the white gown
and had left her to the care of Mrs.
Harris and Mr.. Carter. Try as she
would she could not shake off the
memories of the past; she lived the
days over and over again, and wept
bitter tears
step on the gravel made her
draw back into the shadow. Eliza
beth was returning early. Up the
a r11n a Io-, or
Eiizabeth'sl She moved forward
quickly.
Who is there?" she asked, step
ping into the brilliant moonlight.
man stood in the shadow, but at
the sound of her voice ne moved into
the light.
It's /" he said in low tone.
For a minute she stared into his
face and then fell a limp heap at his
senses she found herself on the old
sofa in the hall where he had laid
her; the same old sofa where they
had sat so often in the days gone by.
He was on his knees beside her.
'Bess!'' he whispered ''Bessl"
Then he leaned his forehead on the
cushion under her head.
1T WAS all my fault. I'm sorry.
Sorry That's not the word for it.
Forgive me-
Inc IauAI was all mlne, she Sa1O
TREMENDOUSLY. Il saw 1t tonight when
was sitting out there by myself. I
had ne right to let anyone come be-
tween us. My sister could have tax
en- Elizabeth just as well as I, but
loved her father so; he was always
my big brother, and then she was
named for me and looked so like me
every one said l couldn't let her go
away from me. It was a mistake.
see 1t now She's going to leave me
here alone and make a home for her
self. I've tried and tried to do what
was right" brokenly, hut 1t always
turned out to be the wrong thing in
the end"
You're the most self-saerificing
woman God ever made" he said soft
ly. Dear. we've lost fifteen years
out of our lives, but it's not too late
for us to find happiness, is it? /
won't let it be if you care for me a
little. I love you. dear"
She gave a, little gasp. "I=thought
aren't you married yet2" she cried.
you were the only woman in the
world for me fifteen years ago and
no other woman has taken your
place.
'Taem@Tomi"
He made no answer except to hold
her close in his Copyrights
1911 by the Associated Literary
Press.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Any number of people have reputa-
lions for being mean which they do
not deserve.
=
So does the elevator man give many
folk lift, and he doesn't play any
favorites, either.
Every fellow knows there's a differ
ence between telling a girl he loves
her and making her believe it,
=
Nothing sounds more out of place
than to hear two old men exchange
angry words and threaten to thrash
each other.
~A
There's plenty of Cinderellas in this
day OF grace, only they don't get out
of the kitchen even for a brief spell.
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stimson and the CavaIrrmen.

The old saying that It never pays to
boot the Office boy because he NAV be
the boss tomorrow, can now be CARA
phrased to say It never pays 10 tell a
private of the militia to hold your horse
too often If you are in the regular
army, because he may come back as
secretary of war. Secretary Stinson H.
Illustrates it.
At the maneuvers at Manassas A few
years ago Mr.. Secretary was then a
private In squadron A, of New York.
Ohcers of the Fifteenth cavalry rubbed
il in some on the New Workers when
it came to holding horses. The sts..ra-
tary visited the Fifteenth at Fort Myer.
The officers were glad to meet him. He
remarked that the last time he met
them he was kept busy holding horses
and stirrups for them Washington
Dispatch to the New York American.
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GLOBE SIGHTS,


IRON the Atchison Globe.
Nobody ever cashed a crouch.
No apple is entirely satisfactory un-
less it is red.
Loafers are personally acquainted
with too blamed many busy men.
If man is good natured in the
morning, he is a good natured man.
A man who struts naturally may
nave an excuse even if it is a poor one.
There are so many lies that some Of
the liars we know repeat too much
About the most thankless task in
this world is to shower attention upon
young people.
Men have their faults. but have
progressed sufficiently in civilization to
quit wearing beads.
Doubtless there are plenty of good
about the constitution
Good people frequently fall down in
slippery places, even If the wicked are
able to stand there
The baby rack is another form of
amusement which never ought to be-
come the national game.
You ought not to get discouraged;
the lame delivery horse usually man
ages to finish out the day.
Beyond chasing man down town
after supper, not much is accomplish
ed by talking all the time.
There is this to be said in favor of
the club as an argume nt: it is quick r
than the other kind.
Speaking of forensic oratory, there
is the line of talk handed out by the
oanyhoo man at side show.
If the pronoun ''I' were eliminated
from the language, conversation might
drag more than it does.
No man ever did so well that his
W11e d1dnt imagine their son would do
better when he got his stride.
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DoVEs AND ouAIL.

According to reports, the doves and
quail are more numerous this year in
Kansas than in any recent year. This
Is also true around the big towns in
the state. Many farmers report the
meadows filled with little quail. An
other thing. which is bad for the
crops, but good for the quail, is the
grassheppers, which in some parts of
the state are unusually thick The
young birds thrive and grow fat on
grasshoppers. The farmers are glad
to have flocks of quail and most of
them are careful to protect the birds
on their farms. The dry weather this
season helped to increase the number
of doves and quail. Wet weather is
very hard on them when they are first
Matched out and many quail are
drowned just after being Matched, but
this year the dry weather came just as
the quail and doves We're Matching
out and the rain stayed away long
enough to give the little ones time to
grow strong enough to take care of
mselYes.EHumbeldt Union.
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kAMxAS CONTENT
TOO MUCH MONEY.


MOST OF the disgusting divorce cases
Which occupy public attention, now
rich.
Poor people who apply for divorces
usually nave genuine reasons for their
aetlons; the husband beats his wife,
or rails to provide for his family, Of
the wife makes her home uncomfortable
py reason of her bad temper or some
tnlng OF the sort. Scandal seldom is
involved IN the divorce annals of the
poor but 1t nearly always figures
largely IN those of the rich.
1t is platitude, of course, but there is
nothing worse for q man or woman
than the possession of too much mon
ey. Unless one has unusual moral
stamina the ownership of a large for
tune undefmines the character. No
man can be truly happy and content
ed unless he is doing something worth
while and riches discourage all effort.
The average wealthy young man has
no goal ahead of him; he has no am
bition; there is nothing TO strive for.
me one purpose of his life is the pur-
suit OF happiness, and the happiness
he pursues is the kind that rots the
body and SOUL
when such a young man maFries he
generally chooses a woman of his own
kind. If he can capture a celebrated
actress, so much the better. 1t isn't q
wife he wants, but merely {. new toy,
something that will cause him to be
enyied by the jehnnies of his own
class
Married life is a delusion unless
there is sympathy, unless husband and
wife have interests in common. The
man who selects a wife as he would
select motor car has no reason to
expect happiness, and he seldom gets
it. Rich wives and rich husbands who
have never seen the necessity of doing
anything useful soon grow weary of
each other, and then there is the Gus
tomary scandal, and the customary di-
veFee, and the customary disgusting
stories In the newspapers,-EmpoFi
Gazette
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TAp-r THE PEAOE1IAKER.

rbeodore roosevelt rendered a great
sarviee to humanity when, as presldeIo
of the United States, he used the goou
influences of that great office to prlns
about a cessation of the war between
Ianan and Russia. For this dtstin-
guished activity, and regardless Oh tne
fact that he believes wars are newt
able and necessary when certain aues-
tions Of honor are at stake between ma
lions he was awarded the famous
Nobel peace prize.
What is to be the mark of recognition
to William Howard Taft for his monu-
mental accomplishment in the quest OF
a universal peace through his consum-
nation of the general arbitration
treaties between England and the
United states and France and the
limited States? They spell the doom c.
possible wars between England or
France and the United States Not
only that but a treaty between Japan
ana the United States along the same
lines is to follow. And it is as certain,
as the fact that day follows night, that
these wonderful treaties are to be the
forerunners of like treaties between the
other great nations of the earth Presi-
dent Taft has given the universal peace
movement an impetus so great that It
will take no backward step. 1t viii
march on and on to an ultimate reality
There is no medal or prize extant that
is sufficiently significant to measure up
to the deed of President Taft in this
particular. But he will hear the glad
peans of praise from the Brotherhood
Of Man vrtn his ds-s~~ d~v. History
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SUMMER CATS.

suffering Cats,
These soft. sweet summer nights,
With humans gone to their delights
OF eating and of drinking bats
You're left at home,
tJnfed, to roam
The empty spaces of the city
Deprived of pabulum and pity.
Now,
How
Pitiful hard
1t is for you in this regard
Nobody knows
But those
Who listen to your woes,
o Suffering Cats,
o shades of skin and bones,
Eat paying-stones,
Tin cans and old straw hats,
And drink ye. in your weak and wabbIy
blindness,
The milk of human kindness,
Wow
Meow Meow!
w. J. hampton, In the New York World.
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THE TRUST AURA.

Some individuals richly possess the
faculty of investing all that they touch
with an aura of righteousness, self
sutficiency and perfection. Such a man
is John e. Parsons, attorney for, legal
organizer of and spologist for the sugar
trust. testfying in its defense before
the Stanley investigating committee OF
congress. It must be something grand
to be able to see a trust in the light
in which Mr.. Parsons sees them, Says
he: There should he no laws in re-
straint OF corporations. There should be
no restraint of trade. The sugar trust
is a benefcent institution Moreover,
see no wrong in a corporation Ike the
sugar trust making large campaign
contributions"
When some iayman expostulated with
the famous English landscape artist,
Turner that "he never saw the lights
and colors in nature that Turner had
put in his picture" Turner replied, no.
but don't you wish you could2" One
wishes intensely to be able to see the
sugar trust in the light of a beneyo-
Ience. The impossibility of the public s
ever seeing this thug among corpora
TONS which corrupted congresses and
legislatures. ground its competitors
into TIE dust, drove its victims to
suicide, and robbed the government of
millions by fraudulent weighing as a
beautiful picture is doubtless because
of a lack of subtle association with the
fraud.
This valuable mental and tempera-
mental sympathy with plumber springs
only from close daily association. 10
he able at length to view all public is
sues all economic. all social, and all
moral questions through the eyes OF
predatory monopoly is quite eonaror-
table and an aristocratlc accomplish
ment.-Detroit News.
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will accord him a major place among
the peacemalxers of the ages. His
fame in the chronicles of the world
from its beginning to its end is secure.
OF the Eight BeatitGdes given voice
to by Jesus of Nazareth. the Seventh Is:
Blessed are the peacemakers: for
they shall be called the children Of
God"
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press1

LB'rom the New York Press.1
There's no excitement in the world
to beat twins. except triplets.
When you take a mans umbrella it's
borrowing; WREN he takes your it's
stealing.
A man can't even be an uncle of a
new baby without thinking most OF the
credit for it is his.
Just by falling in love a Young col
lege mar who has to be supported by
his family gets en idea he could sup
port one of his own.
A small part of the population is al
WAYS fussing about the Constitution,
and the rest If it about the standing
of TIC baseball teams.
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The government Of Haiti Is now with
out head. Also it appears to be minus
q tail. And there does not seem to
he any reason why it cannot get along
just as poorly in such a condition as
1T does when it IS equipped with such
annendages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

insurgency is rife among the woman
clerks in the federal treasury depart
ment They have been provided with
lockers that are many inches too small
for the accommodation of their hats.
This is an instance where insurgency
seems to be righteous.
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FULL, LEASED WIRE REPORT
or TILE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away from home during the summer
rnRy have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate Of
zen cents a week or thirty cents q
month (by mail only)- Address
changed as often as desired. While
out Of town the State Journal Will be
60 you Ike a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

Despite The protests of Mr.. LaFoI-
lette, the bill increasing the member
ship of the house OF representatives
passed the senate by a large majority.
Suggestions have been made in certain
quarters Of late that Mr.. L.aFollette
has become the real leader Of the SEN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

1t is to be hoped that Ex-Governor
Nardaman of Mississippi will get his
hair cut before he makes his grand
entree as a United States senator. If
he will not have it cut the least he can
do is braid it and twist the braids
up under a skull cap.
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line that may develop here. as has
been strongly evidenced again by their
handling and quelling of this smallpox
epidemic. Therefore, the state board
of health devotes its energies to look
ing after conditions in other parts of
the state where the local health auth
critics are ineapable or negligent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

There is this consolation for the ur-
attached men of this and other coun-
tries. Mary MacLane's latest literary
effusion indicates that she is so much
in love with herself that she will not
tr,1 to grab one of them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

Moore & Schley, New York bankers
and brokers. seem to be about the
niftiest financiers in the country. They
We're able to go in debt to the extent Of
$4,000 900 during a panic period and
work out of it without going to the
wall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

All heat records having been broken
already during the summer of 1911 the
weather man seems bent on establish
ing few cold weather records for the
good old summer time. The theFmom-
eters at Denver got down to 4S the
other dav
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

While the state board CT health has
been busy calling other peoples atten-
tion to their health, a good sized cpl
demie of smallpox has developed under
its nose in Topeka. says the Holton
Signal True! But the state board Of
health knows that the sanitary and
health authorities of Topeka are able
10 core VA arg go. -la in tlt-ir
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

This much is also certain. The young
woman, who has chosen Col. Jack
Astor for a husband. did not select him
on account of his beauty of visage or
form
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

England is becoming more modern
all the time. Arrangement have been
made by the British cabinet for an
extra session OF parliament to be held in
the fall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

There has been heavy selling of
Standard Oil stock of late but the low
est price it has yet reached is s615 a
share. the par value of which is S1oO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

In all the addresses and speeches at
the convention of the Associated Ad-
vertising Clubs of America, just ended
at Boston, one note rang our clear
and strong. 1t concerned the necessity
for honesty in aGvertising-honesty not
only on the part of the advertiser in
setting forth the exact facts about the
articles he has for sale, but honestly
also on the part of the publisher in
giving the same square deal to all ad-
vertisers in the matter Of rates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

The first time a candidate runs for
office, he shakes with both hands In
subsequent campaigns he snakes with
the right and reserves the left ia pro-
tect his watch and pocketbook. That's
'Polical Education
The coroner's jury held that the
Frisco woman did the right thing
band. but it's a bad precedent. Shoot
all the worthless husbands and tho
world would be turned into Widows
Reservation.
All speed records have been brol-
en-. President Simon, in escaping
from Hayti, reached the Seventeen
Septem bre on August third. That, one
might be pardoned for observing, is
Going Some.
bunch of doctors have pulled off
stunt that many politicians have at
tempted without success; they have
trimmed Bale Waggener.
EXTRA The u. S. Golf association
mas iegalized DOGGY plays.
1Other important news of great in
terest to office and grocery clerks
WIN appear in this colyum from time
to time.)
Going to Colorado for climate is
just now like going to Kansas City for
pooze,-unnecess
Ever read a description of Colorado
scenery that didn't contain some refer
ehce TO the yawning chasms ?" But
may be they are. The tourists are
enough to make them tired.
The charge against Upton Sinclair
was playing tennis on Sunday" but If
the evidence was sufficient to convict
him of the first part, the day of the
week should cut little figure with the
magistrate.
The kid adnnires the clock and he
would gladly take its place.
Because it never, never has TO wash its
hands and facet
And after spell like that. it's time
to call time.
Hep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

London has an ice famine. but there
is still plenty of fog and smoke there,
including Jack Johnson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

William Jennings Bryan IS large
man all right. He says that if the
charges he made against Chairman
Underwood Of the ways and means
committee Of the house turn out to be
untrue and the result of wrong infor-
nation. he'll apologize That's fair
enough, ard it's much further than
most OF the prominent men OF tbs
country are willing TO go nowadays
when they make accusations and
charges that later turn out To be I'M
qua1ihedly unjust.
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FAIRGROUNDS IN CHINA.


Awakening China has taken another
leaf from the experience book of the
progr essive West. She is going to es-
tablish Fairgrounds in her cities.
1t was during the recent ravaSes OF
the plague in the crowded empire that
some of the more enlightened of her
rulers made the observation that
Western civilization was free from
such widespread destruction of life as
China had witnessed. When they
sought an explanation of the freedom
of Western peoples from deadly cpl
denies, they did not look far until they
found it in the attention given to pro-
ducinE healthful living conditions.
First of all, the recent fmprovem ents
thew decided to seize was that of the
scattering of breathing spots IN the
cities. Now Antung is 70 have play
ground operated on the most modern
of American plans. Public subscrip-
tion provided for the purchase of a
large tract of land, which is being Mt
ted in such a way as to meet the de-
mands of every class of the city's pop
misunderstanding Plain Dealer.
DEMOCRATS POORLY MANAGED
The Democrats in congress are at sea
in the plans of procedure. They nave
a wool tariff and Gotten tariff project
and others hanging fire, but are, ap-
parently, without any defnlte pan OF
action on a single proposition. Ihey
have disclosed a decided lack OF CO
herency in their management and
leadership. Perhaps, If they. would
waive the opportunity of playing poll
tics with what is left of legislation and
let the praise of President Taft for
their attitude toward reciprocity in
spire them, they would come out OF
the present situation more creoita bly,
Democrats demand wool revision of
some sort. as do also the insurgent
Republicans. but even at this late day
in the session they seem unable to say
Just what kind of revision they wish.
At least the factions have not agreed
on the extent to which they should go.
The final passage of the reciprocity
bill has served but to confuse, for 1t
forces a show of hands that threatens
to become EN- EMBARRASSING .-Ona1a Bee.
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He that is without sin among you, let
him first cast stone at her. st. John
VIII Z.
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All speed records have been brok-
en-. PRESIDENT Simon, in escaping
rIOHh Hayti, reached the Seventeen
SepIeinDre on August third That, one
IiIsnt De pardoned for observing, is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05

bunch of doctors have pulled off
a stunt that many politicians have at
tempted without success; they have
trimmed Bale Waggener.
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EXTRA! The U. S. Golf association
has legalized DOGGY plays.
(Other important news of great in.
terest 70 o1Ilce and grocery clerks
VIM appear IN this colyum from time
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suppose said the city man. "thera
are are some queer characters around an ola
many" admitted the native, ssu5bs,,s 9 3gl
hotels fill up Louisville Courier-Journas.iI7
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=, Comsdian-Is your play still runni,~.
e lraIssqaa.n1No; but the manager is."F,v-