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Evening star., 1912-02-25
FULL OF COMPLEXITIES.
The Drawback to "the Simple Life
Is That It's Not Simple.
From the Atlantic Monthly.

ifoei iHe AIlantlc MONTHLY.
The real drawback to "the simple life"
IS that ii is not simple. If you are living
it you positively can do nothing else.
There is not time, for the simple life de-
mands virtually that there shall be no
specialization. The hausfrau who is liy-
ing the simple life must, after all, sweep,
scour, wash and mend. She must also
cook: from that even Battle Creek cannot
save her.
She may dream sternly of Margaret
Fuller, who read Plato while she pared
apples. but in her secret heart she knows
that either Plato or the apples SUFFERED l.
And from what point of view is ii simpler
dulge ones self i'm liveried lackeys? Not
obviously. for the mistress: and IL is
surely simpler to be an adequate second
footman than to be an adequate bonne
tout fare.
We should really simplify life by hay
ing more servants rather than fewer;
more luxury instead of less. The smooth
est machinery is the most complicated;
and which of us wants to sink the Mau-
retania and go back to Robert F'ulton's
steamboat? One would think that the de-
cision would be made naturally for one
by ones income. But ii is the triumph
of the new paradox that this is not so.
Thousands of people seem to be infect
ed with the idea that by doing more
themselves they bestow leisure on others
that by wearing shabby clothes they
somehow make it possible for others to
dress better = though they thus admit
tacity that leisure and elegance are not
evil things.
Evening star., 1912-02-25

but she loved him without analysis OF
thought of self 1t never entered her
mind at this moment to wonder if he were
guilty or not guilty, if he was capable or
not OF committing a crime to gain his
own ends. All that troubled her was his
misery, which she would have given her
very soul to alleviate, and the hopeless
ness in him, which she had. given the
world to console.
The mystery troubled her. not the sir:
the marble-like rigidity OF his face, not
the possibility of the crime.
For the moment. however, she was
brought back quickly enough to present
realities. The cOroner-Satisfied with
Frederick Powers answers-was giving
him moments breathing space. The
grating of fountain pens against paper
was heard from that corner of the room
where sat the journalists: the crowd
waited silent and eXpectant, for-unversed
though most people there present were in
proceedings of this kind-yet instinctiyely
every one felt that one great crucial mo-
ment was just about to come; one great,
leading question was just about to be put.
The coroner had fingered the papers be-
fore him for the space of a few seconds.
then he looked up once more at the wit
ness, his elbow resting on the table, his
fieshy chin buried in his hand. in an at
titude which obviously was habitual to
him.
'"This visitor, he said. speaking loudly
and clearly, who called the night before
last at the Veterans Club and had an
interview with the deceased. you saw
him we'll, of course?'
Yes, SIR was the prompt reply.
You would know him again?'
Certainly. sir
Looking round this room now. should
you say that he was present.?
The man looked across the room
straight at Luke and said, pointing to
him:
Yes. sir; the gentleman sitting there
SIR
AS every one had expected the reply no
one seemed astonished. The many pairs
of eyes that turned on Luke now ex-
pressed a certain measure of Mortified
compassion, such as might be bestowed
on some dangerous animal brought to
earth by well aimed gunshot.
The coroner made no comment. He
turned to the jury, glancing along either
row of solemn faces on both sides of the
long table. Then he said:
Would any of you gentlemen like to
ask this witness a question:?
& Receiving no reply, he added:
Next witness, please!"
ITO be continued tomorrow
Evening star., 1912-02-25
CHAPTER XVI,
The Next Witness, Please.

The air grew more and more heavy as
the morning dragged on. 1t was now
close on II o'clock.
Frederick Power, hall porter Of the
Veterans Club, had finished his evidence.
piled curtly and to the point to every
question put to him. and had retold all
that had occurred on that foggy night in
the smoking room and the lobby of the
Veterans Club, in Shaftesbury avenue.
1t was but repetition of what he had
told Sir Thomas Ryder in Col. Harris
presence the day before. Louisa had had
it all at full length from her father: she
had drawn the whole story out of him,
it originally. Col. Harris. reluctant to
tell her, was gradually driven to conceal
Ing nothing from her. Moreover, since
she had made up her mind to attend the
inquest she might as well hear it all from
him first the better to be prepared for
the public ordeal.
Though she knew it ALL she listened at
tentively to every word which Frederick
Power uttered, lest her father had-in
telling her-omitted some important de-
tail. She heard again at full length the
account of Luke's visit to the Veterans
Club, his desire to see Philip de Mount
ford, the interview in the smoking room
behind closed doors. the angry words of
obvious violent QudrrellnS.
Then Luke,s return to the lobby, his
departure the final taunt spoken by
Philip and the look of murder in his eye,
sworn to by the hall porter. She lis
tened to it all. and heard without finch
ing the last question which the coroner
put to the witness:
Did Mr.. de Mountford's visitor carry a
stick when he left the club?"
"'E 'ad a stick, sir, when e came. :
was the porter's reply, "and 1 'anded it
to i'm myself when e left
Louisa had been sitting all this while
at the extreme end of the row of chairs,
right up against the wall She sat with
her back to the wall, her head leaning
against it, her hands hidden within the
folds of a monumental sable muff, lying
idly in her lap. She had her father on
her right. and beyond him Mr.. Dobson
and his clerk; she saw them all in profile
as they looked straight before them at
the coroner and at each succeeding wit
ness.
Luke sat farther on. and, as he was
slightly turned toward her, she could
watch his face all the while that she lis
tened to the hall porter's evidence. 1t
was perfectly still. the features as If
moulded in wax; the eyes, which actually
were clear hazel, appeared quite dark
and almost as if they had sunk back
within their circling lids. He sat with
arms folded, and not a muscle in face or
body moved. No stone-carved image
could have been more calm, none could
have been SO mysterious.
Louisa tried to understand and could
not. She watched him, not caring whether
the empty-headed fools who sat all round
saw her watching him or not.
When the corkner asked the hall porter
about the stick and the man gave his
reply Luke turned and met Louisa's S
Evening star., 1912-02-25
The Rothschilds.

Paris Letter TO London Truth.
What chiefly struck one at the funeral
of the. late Baron Gustave de Rothschild
was the great multiplicity of relatives de-
scended from his father, the first Baron
James. the shrewdests and most funnily
humorous member of the Paris branch
of the Rothschilds, that he founded.
Among these descendants were a son.
grandscns and great and great-great
grandsons-Rothschilds Lamberts, Leoni-
nos, Ephrussis, Sterns. Sassoons, Cub
bays. They represented not only the prin-
cipie of blood relationship. but the finance
Of Paris. Brussels. Genoa Milan, Odessa,
Bombay and Calcutta Among the nu-
merous multi-millionaires descended from
the first Baron James there was one who
devoted himself to medical science, dra-
matte literature and the collecting Of au-
tographs OF great writers-Baron Henri.
only SON Of the second Baron James.
Evening star., 1912-02-25

inal ideas on the subject of the presi-
dency. as shown by an incident at the
Thomson School last Thursday The
teacher asked Johnny:
why do you think the people elected
George Washington as the first Presi-
dent?'
For a moD1ent the tiny face was
troubled; tiny hand rumpled the golden
hair above the face. and then:
why. l guess it was cause President
Taft wasn't living then"
z 4
In the crowded courtroom where James
H. Smith was being tried before Justice
Anderson last week Court Erier Luxen
had his hands full at times keeping down
the noise which rose from the spectators
1t was rather expectant crowd and
seemed to jump at conclusions. Crier
Luxens great act is raising the crowd to
ing. He watches the door with eagls eye
and as 1t opens an inch he raps three
hard raps and with a magnetic sweep of
the left arm pulls the courtroom to its
feet
Tuesday morning a larger crowd than
usual had gathered. with that curiosity
which leads men and women to listento a
criminal trial. Crier LaNen was watching
the door. Ii opened slightly. He raped
tremendously. The crowd leaped TO its
feet and the crier was about to deliver his
| famous ''Cyez. Oyez. Oyeys' when roar
of laughter shook the courtroom. Chief
! Luxen nearly tainted. He thought the
| crowd was laughing al the justice.
! But he Eas relieved ami surprised when
he looked around with horror on his face
and discovered the Justice" to be a
colored me ssenser placing somespapers on
the justices table. -
If they put pay-as-you-enter cars on
the Mount Pleasant line it will hurt my
| business said a druggist whose store is
on street traversed bygthat spur OF the
/ Washington Railway and Electric Com
] panys lines.
'How's that?" asked the man who had
Just bought stamp. borrowed a light
ana looked in the directory. =
Il won't sell many cigars. On this
| line the crowd going downtown in the
morning smokes lot of my tobacco, and
! have some customers who have been
DuSing ten-cent cigar every morning
I Ior years, just TO stand on the back plat
| form and puff it on the way to the office.
Ihe druggists over on 14th street al!
! say their cigar trade has been reduced
/ sinee the F. A. y. 4. cars went on that
line. and there has been no smoking.
The drug business isn't what ii used
i 10 be- anyhow continued the proprietor
I OF the store. Il can remember when we
| all did "a real drug business and carried a
| few cigars and lemon drops as a side line.
/ But now we have a little cubby hole in
one end of a big store for drugs. and q
great big establishment for everything
Evening star., 1912-02-25
Heard, Seen, Said and Done

A little apple-cheeked Irishman, with
a fringe of Glengarries under his chin
and a Erogue on his tongue as thick as
buttermilk. sat on the curb near Thomas
Circle the other afternoon, mumbl ng,
complaining and ever and anon rubbing
the back OF his head. He seemed to be
at outs with the whole world, and a
passer stopped to learn the cause of his
displeasure.
'.'Tis nawthin' ye can do. a, ALL ex-
claimed the Celt. Il am hur-rt. but it's
more to the sowl av me than to me ould
bones, bad luck be wild tn divl that did
it."
Sympathetically pressed for an expla-
nation, he broke out
.'Tis not enough that l am an old man.
to be insulted by all the young byes and
girruls. who push me here an shove me
there, an say "TiS only gran pats no
natther for him Tis not enough that
/ walk the sthreets av Washinton wild
me legs bent undher me like a jack ,rab-
bit ready to jump whniver tbs whishtle
ay an ottymGbyle hooters in me ear. No,
tits not enough. all the i'll luck that
rides me in rne ould age Wild all the
ottymobyles that runs wild in tn
sthreets. an tn carriages av thin that
has their millions rowiin past me day
and night, | cannot be HURT be wan ay
thin. No, but whin "A dommed ould ash
cart. with a bony baste ay hor-rse that
wud fall down but for the shafts that
howid him up, and an ould black man
dressed mostly in ould coffee sacks,
comes along the sthreet. it's me that gets
in the way an It's me that is pushed
over and bumped on tn head. An sorra
a bit betther off wud | be il | had the
whole dirthy outfit f'r damages. Tis the
luck iv me that breaks me hear-rt.
And the man mumbled and groaned as
he got up and walked away down Yer
mont avenue, while the passer-by had
all he could do TO keep from mortaiiy
afrronting ahe complainer by smiling in
his face
x x 4 X
A five-year-old boy. who lives on one of
those mysterious streets in Mount Pleas
ant which bear no relation whatsoever to
any aother highway in the entire National
Capital, was proudly telling his father
who George Washington was:
..He &as the first President.
And do you know what President
isT' asked father.
mo: but i know where the President
we have lives" said the boy.
"Where?"
AT the White House.
And what does he do?" persisted the
anquisitive parent.
'.He rolls eggs" came the prompt reply.
Another kindergarten student has orig
Evening star., 1912-02-25
sxad saze The marb,e-like stiffness of

fixed gaze The marble-like stiffness Oh
his face remained unchanged. only the
ewes seemed as il they darkened Vlsloiy.
At least to her it seemed as If velvety
shadow crept over them. an lnscrutabie'
an un-understandable shadow. ana the
rims assumed purple hue.
1t was her fancy, of course. But Luxe
eyes were naturally bright, OF varyins
tones of gray, blue or green. with never
a shadow beneath them. Now they ap-
reared cavernous and dark and again as
he met her gaze that swift flash OF IN
tense misery.
was living in a dream, no longer that this
was a theater, wherein she and Luke ana
the dead man were puppets, dancing ana
suuirming for the benefit OF snallo"-
hearted dolts. That sense OF unreaiits
left her. together with the hystericai ue-
sire to laugh, which had plagued her SO
in the earlier part of the proceedings. on
the contrary, now an overwhelming leei-
ing of intense reality oppressed ner' SO
that she could have screamed with tne
awful soul agony which the slght ol
T,uke's misery had caused her.
All her nerves were on the rack, ner
every faculty concentrated on the one
supreme desire to understand anu 10
know.
an enemy-grim, unexplained mystery
and he sat pondering, almost coWea Dy
this first check to his supreme might.
Louisa had sought and compelled Luke s
gaze. and love had cleaned in one great
flash out of her eyes. YESTERDAY, at neI
glance. he had knelt at her feet and
buried his sorrow with his aching head In
the scented palm of the dearly loved hand.
Today the look of love brought but q
surfeit Of misery, an additional load OF
sorrow. The eyes in response remained
fearless and hard and circled with the
dark rings of utter hopelessness.
I'u grant you that If Louisa Harris had
been an extraordinary woman, woman
endowed with wonderfully complex, Won
derfully passionate, or wonderfully emo
tional nature-if. in fact. she had been the
true product of this centurys morbid mod
ernity-she would, while admitting Luke $
guilt. have burned with a passion of self
Sacrifice, pining to stand beside him, pill
loried in the dock, and looking forward
to a yeritable world of fdealist1c realism
in the form of a picturesque suicide, after
seeing the black flag hoisted over New
gate prison.
But Louisa, though modern product
of an ultra-modern world. was an abso-
lutely ordinary woman-just common
place, sensible creature, who thought and
felt in a straight and essentially whole
some manner. Though she had read Toll
stoi and Dostoyefsky and every Scandi-
navian and Russian crackbrain who has
ever tried to make wrong seem right,
black appear white and animaism mas
querade as love, yet she had never been
led away from her own clean outlook on
life.
She loved Luke and would have given
did, in fact, give-her whole life to him;
Evening star., 1912-02-25
Terrible Accident to Chaos.

From the San Francisco Argonaut.
Talleyrand's conservatism was summed
up by witty compatriot. Paul de Cour-
rier. who declared that if Ealleyrand had
been present at the creation he would
have exclaimed: Good gracious! Chaos
will be destroyed"
Evening star., 1912-02-25
Insult to Injury.

From London Opinion.
How dare you throw that SNOWFALL at
me like that?''
n didn't, sir. l threw 1t at that funny
ole woman who's wiv yer.'
Evening star., 1912-02-25

The marvellous Four Year-Old had just
come home from Sunday school.
"What did you learn?" asked one OF
the family.
1--WE learned where the Lord sat
Let's haYe light, and they struck "a
light, replied the child.
Evening star., 1912-02-25
THE HEART OF A
WOMAN
BARONESS ORGY

Copyright, H.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
DR.. CARSON IS DEAD.
Kansas City Doctors Death Sudden
Autopsy Ordered.

Kansas City, July 4.-Dr. c. H. Car
son, head of the Temple of Health,
Twelfth street and Washington avenue,
is dead at his home, of uraemic pois-
oning.
DR.. Carson was born in Franklin
county, Ind, and came to Kansas City
80 years ago. He founded the Temple
of Health soon afterward and had oc-
cupied the present building more than
20 years.
Judge George Carson of Council
Bluffs, Ia, and ]. B. Carson of Salina,
Kan. are brothers. A sister lives in
Indiana. Burial will be in Elmwood
cemetery Friday. The services will be
at the home.
DR.. Harry Czarlinsky, deputy coroner,
said an autopsy probably would be held
because of the suddenness of DIR. Car
sons death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04

This was $6,026,44O less than for
April, 1911. Net operating revenue
per mile of line amounted to $257 in
April 1912, and $3.50 in April, 1911,
a decrease for 1912 of $33 per mile,
or ia per cent. The net operating
revenue for each mile of line for each
day in April averaged $S.57, and for
April, 1911, $9.6S. 1t should be re-
called that net operating revenue
represents gross income before any
thing has been taken out for taxes,
rentals, interest on bonds, appropria-
tions for betterments, or dividends.
Taxes for the month of April
amounted to $6,633,32 or $44 per
mile, an increase of "a per cent over
April, 1911.
The operating ratio for April, that
is, the per cent of total operating
revenues which was absorbed in oper-
ating expenses, was 1877 per cent,
which is comparable with ITO per
cent in March, 1912, and 7O.2 per cent
in April, 1911.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
CHANGE IN BANKS
Beloit Scene of Shifts in Con-
troll of Money.
Three Institutions in That City
Show Good Condition.

Beloit, Kan, July 3-Important
changes in two of the big banks in this
city are announced. A. T. Rodgers and
DR.. F. NJ. Daily, large stockholders IN
the First National bank, sold their
stock to J. c. and Pete Eresch, big
stockholders in the German National
bank, and in turn have purchased the
stock of the Eresch brothers in the
German National. The executive OIL
GERS will remain the same with Frank
Mergen as president, Leo Merger,
cashier, and L. p Downs, assistant
cashier, the latter having filled sim
liar position with the First National.
Under the new ownership of the First
National ]. ]. Kincher, of Glen Elder,
will be the cashier, A. T. Rodgers has
been a familiar figure in Beloit banking
circles for many years and for some
time he was acting in the double capa-
city of president and cashier. The prin-
cipal cause of the change was the de-
sire on the part of Mr., Rodgers to be
relieved from the active management
OF the bank, and while he will be
large stockholder and director in the
German National he will be able to
give more time to other business mat
tiers he is largely interested in. The
Eresch brothers are old residents and
are known to be among the solid men
of Beloit, Mitchell county and north
central Kansas. Under their manage
ment the First National will remain the
same strong financial institution it has
always been.
Beloit has three wealthy banks. The
First National at the close of business
April Is, had deposits aggregating
s2S9. SO4.54; the German National, Feb.
20. had deposits of $315, and the
Beloit State bank at the close of bust
ness, April 2, had deposits aggregating
$435, 1920.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
RAILROAD NEWS
Increase in Operating Reve-
nueS in April.
Expenses in Same Month
Gained Much More.
TAXES HIGHER THIS YEAR
Jumped "a Per Cent Over Last
Years Figures.
Other Items of General Inter.
est in Traffic World.

The bureau of railway economics
makes the following authoritative re-
port for April:
Returns for April, 1912, reduced to
. per mile basis and compared with
the returns for April, 1911, show an
increase in total operating revenues
per mile of o. per cent, and an in
crease in operating expenses per mile
of so per cent. Net operating reve-
nue. per mile decreased $33, or ia
per cent from April, 1911. The net
operating revenue for April, 1911, was
AT per cent less than for April, 1910.
The railways whose returns are in
c1uded in this bulletin operate 219 IS
miles of line, or 30 per cent of all the
steam railway mileage in the United
States. The total operating revenues
for the month of April, 1912, amount
ed to $213, 9S1,01S. This includes rev.
enue from freight and passenger traf-
fic, from carrying mail and express,
and from miscellaneous sources.
Compared with April, 1911, the total
operating revenues of these railways
show an increase of $4,423,356. These
total operating revenues per mile of
line amounted to 1915 in April, 1912.
and 1915 in April, 1911, an increase
for 1912 of 81, or OIL per cent. This
increase was the resultant of an in
crease of 0.3 per cent in the freight
revenue together with slight increases
in other transportation and nom
transportation revenue on the one
hand, and decrease of 0.5 per cent
in passenger revenue on the other
hand.
Operating expenses, which include
all the costs of maintaining track and
equipment, operating trains, securing
traffic and of administration, amount
ed to $157, 61S,073. This was $10,499,
,796 more than for April, 1911. These
operating expenses per mile of line
amounted to $719 in April. 1912. and
1856 in April, 1911, an increase for
1912 of $34 per mile. or so per cent
Each of the several operating ex-
pense accounts showed an increase for
1912. In the cost per mile Of main
tanning way and structures, II. e.,
track and buildings, there was an in
crease compared with April, 1911, of
3.3 per cent; in the cost per mile of
maintaining equipment an increase of
so per cent; in traffic expense per
mile an increase of 3.5 per cent; in
the transportation expenses per mile
an increase of Al per cent; and in
general expenses per mile an increase
of lie per cent.
Net operating revenue, that is, to-
tai operating revenues less operating
expenses, amounted to $56,362,945.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
w1NCHELL1 is FEELING GOOD.
Frisco President Sees Fine Prospect
in Southwest.

Frisco President Sees Fine Prospect
in Southwest.
st. Louis, July AFTER an extended
trip throughout the southwest, Presi-
dene B. L. Winchell of the Frisco lines
declared that crop prospects are ex-
cellent, and that residents in that Sec
ton of the country have every reason
to be optimistic. THE crops never
looked better" said Mr.. Winchell.
They fulfill every promise of early
spring. Corn has been made in south
ern Texas and is nearly made in the
northern part of that state. Plentiful
rain has fallen IN Oklahoma, and there
is no complaint there on that score.
Good crops of wheat and oats have
been gathered in that state. and there
is a good cotton crop coming"
In speaking of Frisco earnings,
President Winche1 said Prospects
are brighter along that line. Good
crops are in sight and the people. I
believe, are tired of talking hard times.
The public is taking a more friendly
interest in the railroads and their sue
cess. The average man. I believe,
realizes more fully today that there
are two sides to the railroad question"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-04
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