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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
A BACHELORS REASON

In the July Womans Home Companion
appears a letter written by bachelor
of 30 to newly engaged girl who aban-
doned a promising literary career. Some
efficient wives will resent the writer S
what he says A part of the letter fol-
lows:
You have probably chosen as difficult
a career as the one you made a start in.
only the world doesn't put it that way.
For in the wife's job the standards of
success are low, while in the literary job
they are high
"Wifehood is a profession and a science.
This is an age of efficiency. We Amer
leans are sacrificing our lives on the altar
of efficiency. My work makes me an ef-
ficient engineer, and when 1 am asked
why I don't marry, l never like to give
the true reason. The girls for whom you
have the right feeling do not come up to
your standard of efficiency as wives
homemakers, stimulators, companions,
advisers. How can 1 be wrapped UP in
the efficiency craze all day, and come
home to find less practical efficiency tnan
in any plant or mine I am connected
with?
And the women themselves are to
blame for this, for they have not looked
on wifehood as a profession ever progress
ing, but have looked upon it as a priv
ilege. A mans work today is harder than
it was in the past. A woman's work has
been made easier. She has not progressed
with the times. Fifty per cent of her
energy is misdirected
Your advice that I go and do like
wise is characteristic of newly engaged
folks. Seriously, no man is more keenly
alive to the possibilities of the right wife
than I am. Nobody wants one or needs
one more than 1 do, for being along much
os the time and having tendency to cut
out social nonsense, I can readily see
what a wife would do for me. But
am afraid have reached the stage of the
game where the conventional sweet little
thing that all my friends introduce me
to interests me about as much as doll
or a toy. A fellow who is travelling all
the time and mingles with all classes of
people must inevitably develop tendency
to discriminate, and if he doesn't happen
to hit the right combination, 1t is only
natural that he should become the variety
OF outlaw known as a bachelor. Men are
not bachelors through choice, and they
really should be given sympathy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
he Chicago News,

From the Chicago News.
Trust not to luck if you would be
lucky.
No. Cordelia, dignity and the swell head
are not the same.
Things are not always what they SEEM
especially compilations.
A man of words is a person, but man
oe deeds Is a parsonage.
If fellow could only utilize his castles
in the air for aeroplane garages,
If wishes were automobiles the supply
OF gasoline would soon be exhausted.
People are always accusing an oldest
irhabitant" of remembering things that
never occurred.
A man has to have considerable of the
divine afflatus to find poetcal inspira-
tions in his back yard
Marrying man with an impeachment in
his speech is right If there is no imped-
iment to the hand that reaches for his
pocket book.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
Shakespearian Productions

1t is reasonably we'll determined
that Marlowe and Sothern will stick
TO Shakespeare next season and will
perhaps add two or three plays to
their repertory. Mr.. Mantell will con-
tinue to present next season Shake
spearian plays, and William Faver-
sham will do likewise.
There is genuine Shakespeare re-
vival in America, and all of these
stars will be needed to meet the de-
mands of the public. A famous recruit
is coming in October in the person
of Forbes Robertson, who is consid-
cred by many as the best Hamlet"
on the English stage, ranking as high
as Mr.. Mantell does as 'King Lear"
MIR. Robertson will make the most
comprehensive tour of America and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
In Mexico they execute lobbyists.
MECHANICS OF GREAT MEN

Owen Hatteras in July Smart Set
Some day, when at last / have OBJ
tanned my divorce and ceased to toll, [
am going to devote my leisure to a
thesaurus of the stable names of the
great. You know what a stable name
is, of course. You know that a racing
mare called Czarina Olga Fedorovna in
the dope sheets is not Czarina Olga
Fedorovna in the stable, nor even
Czarina or Olga, but usually plain Lii
or jimmie. And you know, too, that a
prize bulldog called Champion Zoroaster
II on the bench is often plain Jack or
nent of the genus homo. The official
style and appelation of the late King
Edward VII was Edward. by the Grace
of God, of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and of the Domin-
ions Beyond the Seas. King, Emperor
of India-but his wife called him Ber-
tie. And the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm
calls him Willie.
But what of even greater men? What
was Ibsen's stable name? Did his wife
call him Henrik formally, harshly--or
did she tone it down to Hen, Henny,
Harry, Rik or Hank? And Bismarck?
Did the Furstin ever call him Ott-
chen? or Otilly? Both ravorites at the
German hearth! And Tolstoi? By Rus
sian custom he was Leo Nikalajevitch
to his friends-but was he ever Lee or
Nicly to the Countess? what was Grant
to his wife? Certainly not Ulysses, an
inhuman, impossible name! And Ma
poleon 1? And Wolfgang Amadeus Mo-
zart? And Honore Balzac? And Robert
Browning? Was he ever Bob? And John
Wesley? Was he ever Jack? And En-
manuel Swedenborg? Was he ever
Nanny?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
The Stock Market

Henry Clews in his Saturday review,
says in part
1T has been an eventful week upon
the stock axchange. First came the Min
nesota rate decision from the supreme
court, which was momentarily disap-
pointment to railroad interests, although
not without it's favorable features. This
decision has happily settled the ques-
ton of state rights as to the power of
rate making.
'"The next important event was the an
nouncement of Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo that he was willing to authorize
additional bank note circulation to the
amount of $500. 10000 under the Aldrich-
Vreeland act when the emergencies de-
manded. There was nothing new in this
announcement, for bankers and others
in the financial district were quite well
aware that the Secretary had this power.
But the announcement of the readiness
of the new administration to adopt this
method when desirable exerted a most
reassuring effect, and the better feeling
thus induced caused a sharp rally in
the entire market and justly so. The
short interest had been considerably ex-
panded by previous developments, and
the rush to cover shorts materially aided
the upward movement. Mr.. McAdoo's
action deserves high commendation as a
master stroke.
THE home business situation is gen.
orally sound. Merchants and manufac-
turers are running upon hand to mouth
basis and there is consequently no gen.
eral oversupply of merchandise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
FOUND ON THE MOOR
Christian Register.

From the Christian Register.
Dear. quiet Aunt Mary had gone up
from London to visit golfng family of
nephews and nieces. At tea the first
afternoon someone managed to stop talk
ing long enough to ask:
well, Aunt Mary. and how did you
spend the morning."
"Oh, / went for walk on the moor.
A good many people seemed to be about,
and some of them called out to me in a
most eccentric manner. But I didn't
take any notice of them. And. oh.
my dear, I found such number of curl
Gus little round things! l brought them
home to ask you what they are
Hereupon Aunt Mary opened heI
workbag and produced "a golf balls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
BACHELORS
Rene Laidlaw in July Smart Set.

Rene Laidlaw in July Smart Set.
A bachelor enjoys no meal so much
as that which he eats in a cosy home
dining room with a charming hostess
serving him. A married woman enjoys
none SO well as that whose dishes are
selected by another-especially if she
can trust his taste and isn't sure just
what he will order. That is one reason
why bachelors make love to married
women, and why married women love
bachelors.
Giving is often the condition of re-
ceiving. But the most synical single
man is, on the whole, preferable to the
married man who constantly reminds
his wife of what he has given her.
One of the most delightful states of
mind to which the average man is sub
ject is uncertainty as to the exact sem
timent entertained for him by woman
whom he admres, and whom he knows
to like him, but whom he is not dead
set upon winning for himself One of
the most unpleasant states is certainty
that woman deeply loves him when 1t
is inconvenient or impossible for him
breadth separates these two states--or
only a few minutes in time.
A dlettante told me yesterday: 81
prefer black and white sketches by a
clever artist to his finished paintings
They leave more to my Imagination
which is a better traveller than any
painters brush" For the same reason,
the bachelor interests matrons more
than married men do. He, too, is un-
finished; and every woman likes to i'm
him-or what she may.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
City and County

understand that there has been some
discussion of making Birmingham coun-
ty to itself or, in other words, separat-
ing 1t from the county that surrounds
1t, just as is the case in st. Louis and
in some other cities,'' said T. l.. Brattle
of st. Louis. "Up to- 1876 st. Louis was
part of st. Louis county, but since
then it has been separate and its courts
and other governmental machinery have
been entirely Independent of any county.
Another large city that is separate
from the county is Baltimore. am told
that in Virginia all the cities are sep
arate from the counties 1T seems to me
pretty good way, especially from
revenue point of view.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
Completion of the KeOkuk Dam

This 25,000,000 enterprise was be-
gun in January, 1911, and on July 1,
1918, it will stand complete, and at
that time st. Louis will receive Co.
000-horse power out of the 80, ,40S
horse power to be developed at the
plant. The transmission line from the
dam to st. Louis is 1877 miles long and
st. Louis is confident it is a line
worth more than any gold mine ever
opened. Cheap power that can be
readily applied is indeed great gift
to any city.
The country far and near will be
supplied with cheap power; the river
has been deepened for 65 miles and al
together the Keokuk dam is one of the
great victories of hydro-electricity in
an electric age. 1t may lead to other
dams of a like nature in the great
river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
The Price af Iron

The iron market has been quiet for
several weeks past but there is now a
confident feeling that it will become very
active again this summer said well
known broker
When the iron market does start up
1t usually climbs fast. AS soon as it
gets back to $12 on a No. basis IT
will not be long before it reaches the s1s
level. We may not see $14 iron this
summer. but 1 really believe the mar
ket will become firm at $13 to s13.5O''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

More than 25,O00 babies less than a year
old died in New York state during the
year 1912. These statistics, Governor Sui
zer declared. in addressing an infant well
fare conference. "are an indictment
against our civilization" inasmuch as
well known authorities estimate that
ventable by known practical methods"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
Crops in Fine Condition

II have just returned from three
days trip to south Alabama" said
Frank Wade Saturday.
Crops seem to be in fine condition
and planters are giving more attention to
diversified farming than formerly. Much
corn has been planted, and though 1t Is,
of course, small there is bright outlook
for good harvest.
1.-The cotton acreage is about the same
as last year and the growing plants are
apparently in a healthy condition. The
people of Coosa county are not worry
ing to any great extent about the boil
weevil. / believe that the cotton har-
vest in Alabama this year will be as
large if not larger than that of last
year.
THE peach crop looks very slim. There
are quite few small peaches, but they
are dropping off the trees and the June
peaches were little, scrawny, tasteless
things
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
PINERO IN EVOLUTION

one turns to such faint caricature of
life as the colorless Lily Parradell and
the crew about her. Again Pinero has
sought IL milieu in which some of the
delicacy and quaintness of that same life
which inspired him to write "Trelawny
of the Wells might reasonably have been
found. Yet he transferred none of its
beauties In this sketch of stage life.
There had to be a drunken lover, there
had to be phase of Lilys life which
was altogether sordid. Without that ele-
ment preponderating the theatre OF Pi-
nero seems impossible today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
pIG SWEET TATER bed

From The Dixon Journal.
Cook Jones, of near Slaughterville, N.
Y, has a sweet potato bed four feet wide
by "A feet long, 176 square feet. This bed
recently furnished 1000 slips per day for
week. Mr.. Jones is one of Welster's
best truck and, fruit raisers. In one year
he furnished 1900 gallons of strawberries
to the markets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
SAFE
2 Woman's Home Com

Fyann taf Juiv Womans Home Com
,ranloA
L.lttie M5fy was on the veranda in
tbs eorllnS sunshine when she saw a
frier nf the amily approaching, and
withei @eiung to be addressed she
cal q. Hello Mr.. Mason, I've had a
birthda
'.whys Aiars is that so? How old
are you7
'A9or YEARS old,' she told him.
= woaff NV, what I'd better do
to .Qp 4t Mason pondered, and was
amuSsa aA reply that came very
posi- s~ls
'Seu csIs "a sitting on it,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

For mayor of Chicago in 1915, Miss Jane
Adams of Hull House on the progress
sive ticket. The suggestion came from
the lips of a score of prominent woman
suffrage leaders in Chicago, rejoicing over
the passage of the bill that gave the fran
chise to the women of Illinois.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
The Hum of Industry

'It is most grateful to listen to the
hum of industry in and around Ensley
Fairfield and the new wire miIl," said a
well known upbulder.
Birmingham has been moving ahead
steadily for many years past, but not
recently has anything happened of such
cheering import as the resumption of
work on the wire mill. Fairfield, where
most of the skilled employees of the wire
mill will reside, is now scene of buoy
ancy and wholesome stir. When it was
called Corey. it was beautiful town
two years ago-but it is becoming more
beautiful every day."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

Tama Jim Wilson has gone to England
to study English farming, but when he
comes back he will speak as private cit
izen only. He has no demonstrators now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

The capitalists who put 81 100000 in the
friedman serum begin to think they
bought mock turtle instead of diamond
back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Business Activity

There is a marked difference between
New York and Chicago so far as senti-
ment and talk in business circles 60,
said l.. T. Woodwork of Chicago.
Il was in New York three or four
weeks ago, and there / heard great
deal of pessimistic talk. In Chicago one
rarely ever comes in contact with pes
simist. In banking circles there Is al
ways of note of optimism.
THE crop reports are certainly cheer
ing and believe we are going to have
a good, busy summer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

President Baer says there are no more
contented people than those to be found
in a small town" Mr.. Baer lives, how
ever, in a town of 100000 people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

Wood blocks are the best paving ma
teriai earth. even if something else is
preferred in paradise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

The oldest money counter in the treas
ury department is a woman, and sne has
been counting money so years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

Many a pitching arm cannot get in trim
in such June weather as we have been
having.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

Mr.. Taft has lost weight chiefly because
ne had left the banquet circuit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

A roaring furnace fire in June has been
by no means rare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

The Abernathy boys are waiting pa
tiently until Teddy comes back. They
are fast growing UP.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

The best way to enjoy fishing party
is to lie in the hammock and read a best
seller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

Those who got diplomas this month
were not all diplomats.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

The supreme court applied the rule of
reason to the railroads in the Minnesota
case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-16

The supreme court is in the railroad rate
tower at present.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-08
TO BUILD TWO BRIDGES
Item of $4,000 for Two Across the
Shunganunga.

Included in the city budget for the
coming year is the sum of little more
than $4,000, levied as a special bridge
fund to be used in the erection of two
modern. concrete bridges. Both of the
bridges probably will be erected joint
" nv the city and another corpora
tion. one of them, a bridge over the
Shuneanunga on Kansas avenue, is eX-
pected to be erected by the city and
Topel<a Railway company. The other,
across the Shunganunga at Fifteenth
street near the ball park, will De
Joint city and county bridge.
Each of the proposed structures will
cost between $4,000 and $4,000. the
citv's half of each aggregating close to
1he $4,000 levy for bridge purposes.
zach bridge when erected as a per-
r0anent structure will save hundreds of
dollars in the near future spent in
repairs. and will insure lasting struc-
tI1re on which very little repair will be
needed.
IT is the plan of the city commission
ers to build a bridge or two each year
for the next few years, until all the
old structures that need replacing sc
badly have been torn down and mod
ern bridges placed in their stead. The
commissioners do not expect to erect
ANYTHING but concrete bridges, and will
insist upon such structures when deal
ing with the county and erect railway
company.
= Pleas for other bridges next year
have been made The East side Shun-
ganunga drainage board wants the
bridge over the Shunganunga at Davies
street replaced. and is urging the erec-
ton of other bridges. To build them.
however. will be impossible this year
without a bond issue. and the people
of Topeka already have vetoed an is
SIle of bonds for bridge purposes So
the city officers will build them as fast
as they can, making a small special
levy for that purpose each year until
all that are needed have been built.
The two bridges to be constructed
next year, for which the levy has been
made will be at least 20 feet wide,
the bridge on Kansas avenue probably
being even wider The plan is to build
them of concrete making them practi-
caIly indestructible.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-08
NOTICE CONCERNING THE, DEPSrIr
OF STATE FUNDS.

To Whom 1t May Concern:
The undersigned, the Board of Treasury
Examiners pf the State of Kansas bereb-
give notice that on the End day of Set-
proposals from the Incorporated banks
doing business in Kansas. both State and
National, for the deposit of public funds
of this state. Will be received in accord
ance with the provisions of Chapter al
of the Session Laws of 1905.
Said proposals shall state the amount
of funds any bank desires and the rate
of interest II will pay on daily balancey
and that said bank VIII qualify and faith.
fully perform the duties REQUIRED of it
provided the award is made to such bank
said Board of Treasury Examiners reserv.
ing the right TO limit the amount of funds
deposited and to reject any and ali pro-
posals for such fund.
Each proposal shall be acocmpanted bv
certified check in the sum of Two
hundred fifty dollars Cs250) payable TO the
State Treasurer. to be forfeited for the
use of the state II said bank fails to com
plv with the terms Of its PROPOSAL II the
Treasury Examiners; otherwise to be re-
turned to the bank.
All proposals shall be sealed and de-
posted with the State Treasurer on or
before two O'Clock p. m. Of the 2nd day
of September. 1918, shall have written
thereon Proposal for Depot of state
funds" and shall not be opened until the
liners on the date above stated Banks
desiring to make bids may write to State
Treasurer for blanks.
GEO. H. HODGES. Governor
CHAS. H. SESSI ONS, Sec. of State.
W. e DAVIS. Auditor OF State.
Done at the capitol in Topeka this 10th
day of July, 1918.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-08
First published In The Topeka State
Journal August T. 1871
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

-
Sealed proposals will be received by ths
Memorial Hall Building Commission until
p. m. Monday. August 49, 1913 for the
furnishing Of all labor and materials nee
essary for the laying of finish floors in
the State G. A. r. Memorial Building at
Topeka, Kan.
In this will be included Tile Terrazzo,
F1eXotile, Marble. Cork tile, Rubber tile
and cement finish floors.
Plans and specifications may be seen
on file In the office of Charles II. Chan
oler, State Architect, at the State House.
All workmanship and materials for said
work must be in accord with the plans
and specifications.
Each bid must be accompanied by a
certified check for five 80 per cent of the
amount bid. Said check to be made pay
able to Geo. II. Hodges Chairman OF the
Commission, and the same shall be for
feited to the State in case the successful
bidder fails for five days to enter into
contract and furnish the required bond
prescribed by law. after the award Of
contract has been made.
The attention of the bidder is called to
Chapter ia, Session Laws of 1891. with
which he must comply; this is commonly
known the eight hour law"
The commission reserves the right to
consider bids a whole or to segregats
as appears to the best interest Of the
State to do, also to reject any all bids,
or parts OF bids If II is deemed to be to
the States interest to do so.
Proposals will be presented under sealed
covers, be plainly marked proposals and
addressed to Gov. Geo. II. Hodges, Chair
man. Signed,
THE STATE MEMORIAL BUILDING
COMMISSION
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-08
LEGAL

condition.; and as a further consideration
TO- the srauting OF this franchise, said
fore beginning the constructor OF any of
the lines OF railway herein authorized, pay
I.,G lllIo the SIty IFeaSury sum ol a money
property owners for the pavement now
laid on the right-of-way granted herein.
benefit and to be paid over and dis
tributed to those who at the time said
money is paid into the city treasury shall
be the owners of the property along said
streets which was assessed for the cost OF
such paving, in ratio and proportion and
on the same basis as the original cost
was determined and assessed; the amount
to be paid, in case of disagreement, to
sioners of said city, and the payment and
distribution thereof to be under the super
missioners; the payment of said money
to be in full settlement with the City OF
section of said Ordinance No. 24O7. for all
materials taken up and used In said
streets by SAID TSst company; a,,g;n ten nm o.
after the taking effect of this ordinance;
said The Topeka Railway Company shan
LIE with the city clerk of the City of To-
peka its acceptance in writing OF the pro-
visions, terms and conditions of this ordi-
acknowledged before some officer author-
lied to administer oaths; and this ordi-
nance unless so accepted SHAH become
be and constitute a valid and binding
contract between the City of Topeka and
time OF the acceptance of this ordinance.
said The Topeka Railway Company shan
pay into the city treasury of the City of
Topeka, a sufficient sum OF money for the
publication thereof.
Section s. This ordinance shall take ef-
feet and be in force when duly passed.
published and approved as provided by
law, and shall be valid and binding con-
tract between the City of Topeka and The
Topeka Railway Company from and after
its acceptance by The Topeka Railway
Company as herein provided.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners,
July q, 1913.
Approved. July "a, 1913.
ISeal.1 r. L. COFRAN.
Mayor.
Attest: c. q. BURGE, City Clerk.