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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23

the flowers. the footlights and the
homage done great artist were all
embodied there and they We're going to
find new habitation in the person of
Mary Ellen. She only knew that she
was happier than she had ever been
before and that some new strange
power was taking complete possession
of her.
hair into knot and with the aid of
a couple of exquisite amber pins Sc
cured it at the nape of her neck. I'm
consciously her nostrils expanded to
the pungent Gdor of cosmetics and the
lingering scent of perfumes that the
costumes exhaled.
A few moments later Mary Ellen
sank with a little flutter of breathless
contentment into the big davenport in
the drawing room.
The book she had taken from the
case was a volume of Shakespeare.
While she read that presence again
lowered over her and Mary Ellen's
dreams became pregnant with the in
spirat1ons, the longings and the pow
ers of a great actress. She seemed
vested with the spirit of an artist.
Mary Ellen became lost in the charac-
ters of Rosalind, Portia. Ophelia and
Juliet.
After that one perfect hour the girl
lived only when she was in the big
house. She stole away quietly even
at dark hours of the night and be-
came the ladies of Shakespeare re-
hearSing the parts aloud and growing
each day in her power of expression.
Even then Mary Ellen scarcely realiz-
ed where her love of fancy was lead
ing her. She did not know that events
were shaping themselves for the APP
pearing of another great actress nor
that the sudden opening of window
on the ground floor meant the entering
into her life of her great hero.
she was Ophelia that evening and
her copper hair hung below her waist
and tangle of flowers crowned it.
The soft whiteness of her gown
brought out the brilliant luster of her
eyes and when young Willet Kaye
opened the door of the drawing room
suddenly he fell back.
Mary Ellen did the proper thing
and fell headlong to the floor
With bound Kayne was kneeling
beside her and holding her in his arms.
He brushed back the heavy mass of
hair.
You are not ghost, then % he said
when she opened her eyes.
Mary Ellen smiled and drew herself
away from the intruder. mo" she
said wistfully, II was only playing lady
will I have to stop? L suppose you
are the master
that gives you a moments pleasure
Kaye told her, scarcely knowing what
he was expressing, 81 am Willet Kaye.
the Shakespearean actor, and this is
my grandmother's home-yes. perhaps
l am the master. but you
TT am just Mary Ellen" She
paused for a breathless moment while
under the ardent gaze of Kaye; her
heavy lids 1uttered down lest he wit
ness the coming of dreams into their
depths-(Copyright, 1913, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23
A BRIDGE OF WATER.

What the engineers of the United
States government are constructing at
Panama is not a canal through the
ISthmus, says a writer In the July
Scribner, but a bridge of water across
and above it. The socalled canal is a
huge water bridge, the first in the
worlds history. 1t is about "a miles
in length. ST feet high, with a chan
mel of water through its center varying
in depth from As to 81 feet and in
width at the bottom from 800 to / 900
feet. The bridge is divided into two
sections. Gatun lake and Culebra cut.
the latter being an arm of the former.
Access to the bridge by vessels will be
by means of water-elevatorS, six in
duplicate at either end, each 1000 feet
long, 10 feet wide, and with a COM
bined lift of 81 feet. At the Atlantic
end the elevators are grouped one
above another. like flight of three
steps. At the Pacific end two pairs of
elevators are grouped at the bottom,
and are separated from the third pair
above by a platform of water in the
form of lake about a mile and a
half in length. The piers or walls
which hold the bridge in place are the
Gatun dam and elevator gates at the
tor gates at Pedro Miguel at the Pa
cific end.
In constructing the bridge and Sc
curing a level for its channel it was
necessary to cut a passage through a
mountain range near the Pacific end
and to erect lower mountain range
or ridge at the Atlantic end. The first
is known as the Culebra cut, and the
second, composed in large part of the
earth and rock taken from the cut and
transported about thirty miles, is
known as the Gatun dam. A noun
tain had to be moved, not by faith, but
by dynamite, steam-shovels. and rail-
way trains, and set up anew thirty
miles away. 1t was placed across the
lower end of a valley or watershed
comprising 1920 square miles and will
form in that valley a lake with an
area of 164 square miles. with a depth
varying from As to 81 feet. and con-
tanning 1873, 100000, 900 cubic feet of
awter. This lake, with its Culebra cut
arm, is the water bridge of the 18TH
mus. Twenty-fcur miles of the chan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23
KANSAS COAAENT
THE PEOPLES SHARE.

Down from the north comes the
news that the supreme court is up
holding the low rate case. This news,
while it doesn't mean that the rail-
roads have been or are DESTROYS or
hogging the people, comes as good
news to the people, just the same. The
people are the consumers and time
was when the railroads were special
interests. The roads have not ma
terially suffered from the lower rate
rulings which gave the people a better
living rate.
A great many railway officials said
at the time the lower rates went into
effect that the railroads would have
to quit business. On the contrary the
railroads have prospered because they
nave had more travel.
The country-that is, the common
are perfectly able to make good money
under the lower rates If the roads are
under the proper management. 1t is
true, the roads have developed a great
amount of country and have been an
untold benefit to civilization. But
they have been paid for it. 1t was a
femunerative business or the railways
would not have undertaken it. Con-
sequently there is no sentiment enter
ing into the case: merely a matter of
reasonableness. The people have gen.
orally felt that lower rates were not
coming to them as a Christmas pres
ent but as a just share OF their con-
tributions to the business-Ottawa
Herald.
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says UNCLE CAV

I saw the ghost-man again today
4 and as usual he left me torn between
disgust and pity. He's pitiable little
! wrath of a fellow who comes and
| goes without attracting a great dea
of attention. You never know wher
he is at your elbow nor what he
wants there. He has seemingly
brought the art of self effacement
| down to a fine point. He was never
known to make a noise or to have ar
opinion. He has neither occupation
! to take his time nor friends to think
about. He's just a little gray ghost
| of a man who fits in from nowhere,
does nothing and goes nowhere.
believe that L should rather be
a beggar or a thief or even muir
abhorrent as to be nothing. 1 can
conceive of no being SO repellant as
he whose comings are so silent as not
to be noticed and whose goingS are
so unimportant that he is not missed.
There is something uncanny and I'M
natural about those who attain to APP
proximate nonentity.
The biggest part of the normal man
is his sympathetic relation with his
fellows That relation necessarily in
wolves usefulness and healthy activi-
tiVeS. 1t preSupposes certain amount
proper employment of the functions
of the body. 1t includes a lively in
terest in the affairs of other men. No
man with these manly characteristics
is ever nonentity. He can't enter a
room without taking some sort of nat
ural notice of him and he can't leave
it without your being aware of the
fact. When he is missing from his
accustomed place, you remark upon
the fact and more than likely you la
ment it. When he comes upon you
suddenly he surprises you, but he
doesn't give you a turn" But the
ghost men come and go and you take
note of them only when your nerves
tingle or your hair stands upon end.
You feel like telling them in all seri-
BUSINESS that the graveyard is thirty
five squares beyond and asking them
to be getting along back home.
The ghost men carry effacement to
it's logical conclusion. They succeed
in getting so far away from the nat
ural activities of their fellows as to
suggest that the graves have yawned.
There is something weird about them
that doesn't set well with the nerves
of folk who are thoroughly alive and
aggressive. There is something human
still about the battered down-and-out
who has fought his fight and is TAX
ing his medicine as best he may. But
the man who has never mustered
courage to pluck the world by the
sleeve and demand his own, but walks
timidly and alphabetically among real
men, belongs to the shadow world,
not to this. He is a wanderer from
the realms of the unreal and should
either buck up and play a mans part
or get back to the shades. Here he
is too much or the nerves of men
1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
sd Isa.ss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
IRON the Phfladelphia RECORD.


1t seems that no matter how high he
climbs a man is never above suspicion.
Many a man gives the devil his due
when he isn't so considerable of his neigh
bors.
No man thoroughly believes in himself
unless he has absolute confidence in his
liver.
A bank account isn't always the best
yardstick with which to measure mans
value.
A man can do almost as much damage
with corkscrew as woman can with a
hatpin.
Nell-"Say what you will about Jack.
he's quick lightning" Belle-"And
just about as flashy.''
Sillicus-'tYes, his sweetheart Tilted him
and married another fellow" Cynicus-
I'll bet he'll be the first to get over it,
Good goods come in small packages, In
spite of the fact that people who are all
wrapped up in themselves may be pretty
small.
Billy-"I suppose it's a good plan for a
girl to keep the right side of her
chaperon." Milly-"Yes, especially if the
haperon 1t deaf in that ear
There is nothing like stacking up
against the world to bring out all there is
in a man. remarked the old traveller.
Yes especially an ocean voyage" sadly
replied the passenger who was leaning
over the rail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23
THERE MUST BE a WAY.

There are many things doing in the
street railway world that inspire the
hope that the day of better things for
Topeka may come some time. Cieve-
lands three-cent fare is such a sue
cess that the company is making big
money and the patrons are saving
100000 a year.
Requirement of the system by the
city is said to be imminent, with two
cent fares and universal transfers
likely.
Detroit has voted by a large major
ity to take over it's lines, which have
been declared by the court a tres
passer on the streets, the private fran
chises having expired San Francisco Is
moving ahead steadily with the de-
veIopment of it's municipal system,
and by the time of the exposition Will
have something worth while as
municipal exhibit not under the main
tent. Chicago has started out to see
if it can't be shown that it is both
right and feasible that a fare should
entitle to a seat.
The people of this city have been
so thoroughly aroused by the failure
of the city and the street railway COM
pany, to get together on the matter OF
extensions that it is not unlikely that
some plan will be evolved by which
the public can get what it wants
and the consideration to which 1t Is
entitled.
The city should find way or
81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23
EVENING CEAT
Breaking Down the Barriers.
81 RVTA cAeNRoN,

|
| Each age looks upon the last ages
protest against change as mere sur
! face prejudice, but thinks its own pro-
| tests are rooted deep in the very
foundations OF things. 5.t1-
In the age that is just past the I'M
| married woman has managed to break
down the barriers of prejudice and
| make good her claim to be allowed
| to earn her own living in almost every
| field of activity.
But although the barriers are down
| for her, they are still up for her mar
ried sister. The married woman who
| is not satisfied with homework as a
lifelong profession is mathematical
today with all the vigor with which
the unmarried woman who wished to
enter a profession twenty-five years
ago and the girl who wanted to go
to college twenty-five years before
that were attacked.
A friend of mine, a married woman
of about forty-five, who has always
deteSted houSework, has recently TAX
en- position as proofreader and
hired a woman to do the houSework
She has two children, a girl at col
lege and boy who works. 1t is not
necessary for the welfare of either
that she should be at home all the
time. The woman whom she has hired
to do her housework is better house
keeper than she was herself, and costs
distinctly less than her employer can
earn at proofreading. And yet this
woman has aroused a storm of adj
verse criticism by her act. I was
talking with one of her critics about
it the other day. ut isn't natural
he said.
"Why?" I asked. "She dislikes
housework and likes proofreading"
But she ought not to dislike
homework" he said. ITS womans
natural work. Ever since the world
hnr hoe
and woman the food cooker"
Man must be the food getter and
woman the food cooker" Whenever
1 hear that argument, as I often do,
I just boil; I can't help it, it is so
ohildishly one-sided. At the beginning
for food. Later he cultivated the
earth. Does the average man do
either today? And would he take
kindly to the thought that he isn't do
ing his duty unless he is either a
butcher or a farmer? Well, then, If |
the modern division of labor makes it |
right for a man to earn the money
to pay others TO do the actual food |
getting, why doesn't it make it right |
for a woman to earn money to pay
others to do the actual food cook |
ings?
Perhaps you notice 1 am sfde-step- |
ping one phase of the questionable |
fact that a woman's work as a mother |
cannot be so easily shifted. That is
true, but sometimes when I see our
ill-bred American children L wonder /
If the English way is not just as |
good. And in any case, that does not |
affect the innumerable instances like
the one I have cited, in which the
children's claim does not make work
outside the home impossible.
think the next age will be an age
Of greater occupational freedom for
he married woman, and don't think
our home life will seriously suffer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23
SAVING THE HOGS.

Hog cholera has for many years
| heen q scourge of the hog raising in
! dustry causing heavier direct losses
than any other animal disease IN TINS
country. The losses for last year are
estimated at s60,oOO,eO9. In the face OF
a short supply and high prices of meat
it is becoming imperative that some
thing should be done to check the
ravages of this disease. Armed with
an effective preventive treatment, the
department of agriculture hopes by
means of these experiments to DEM
onstrate a method which can later be
applied on a large scale throughout the
infected regions, so as to control and
eventually to eradicate hog cholera and
thus stop the heavy losses and help
to increase the country's meat sup
ply.
Under a special appropriation of
$4,000 made by congress for demon
strating the best method of prevent
ing and eradieating hog cholera" the
department of agriculture has under
taken practical experiments in COM
batting this disease. The appropriation
becomes available July l, and work
will be begun first in Iowa, and will
be taken up later in Indiana, and in one
or two other states. In Iowa the work
will be done in cooperation with the
state veterinarian and the Iowa state
college.
A few years ago the bureau of animal
industry of the department, after years
of experimentation, developed a serum
which has been demonstrated by re-
peated tests to be very effective to
preventing hog cholera. In many
states this serum has been prepared
and distributed to farmers with the
result that large sums of money have
been saved to the farmers, but thus
far no systematic effort has been made
to eradicate hog cholera. In the work
which is now begun the control and
eradication of the disease will be the
main object, the serum being used in
connection with the necessary quaran-
tine and educational measures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23

The county assessor of Norton coun-
| ty has found out that the people of
his county are worth 1913 per capita
The police arrested the sheriff
down at Hutchinson. Now who will
arrest the coppers should occasion
arise
Citizens of Robinson captured the
night Waterman and then pulled up
all the hitch racks along the main
street.
Fredonia is about to establish a
country club. People living in crowded
cities must have some place to get
fresh air.
Listen to these two items from the
Times: mr.. and Mrs. Carl Stenger
are the parents of a girl" Mr.. Carl
Stenger was on the sick list Satur-
day."
Applying for a position as re-
porter on The Globe a. young man
states that he has taken the degree
of b. S. in journalism. What's that?
-Atchison Globe. Ask one of your
printers.
+ When a man tells you that he has
never paid cent for repairs on his
automobile, don't dispute him. He
may be telling the truth and be able
to prove it by the man that did the
repairing.-BaInard Bee.
a IVY SoAuAnil atStStC III LIS Ell
poria Gazette on the passing of the
old Whitley opera house is one of the
finest things appearing recently in a
Kansas newspaper and will appeal to
many an old time resident of the
state,
Note, If you please, the wisdom of
our own William Yost Morgan in re-
framing from making his trip to Bull
garia until the war is over. William
was not afraid to go while the war
was on, but desired to show his dis
approval of war by his absence. Mr..
Morgan is particularly strong as a
man of peace, a fact he has proved
by waging many a fierce war in order
to secure it.-Lawrence Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23
FROM OTHER PENS

ABUSE OF FRANKING PRIVILEGE.
The franking privilege is strained to its
utmost when 1T is used to carry campaign
slIerature through the mails. When
py post for the information of voters no
serious objection need be offered The
and what he says is potentially of interest
TO the country.
But when documents other than con-
SreSSlonal speeches are read in congress
or their printing at the cost of the govern
ment is ordered with q view to their use
as campaign literature. it is hardly a
nee or the mails. 1t may be tolerated
however, as a part of the general political
discussion which is essential to popular
Even this liberal construction will not
JUSTIFY the Thanking of matter prepared
py interested parties for the purpose of
influencing congressional action through
the creation of public opinion. The frank
ing privilege ought not to be used in the
seeking to secure legislation for his or its
own benefit. - "
=, The people who are trying to prevent
me removal of the duty on sugar because
the duty is source of wealth to them
nave no right to the free transmission
thhrough the mails of their special pleas,
ested arguments. Senator Lodge saved
them $4,000 by franl1ing the documents
c crey desired to circulate in the hope of
tGreaunS sentiment at home that would
influence congressman to vote for a duty
on on sugar. The people who are trying in
me tlieir own pecuniary interest to fasten a
use the proceeds of taxation for the free
circulation of their literature. If they are
making money out OF the sugar duties
let them use a part of it in paying postage
on the arguments they wish. to get before
congreSsmen Sfid the voters -, -
veteran IN congress ike MIR I,odpa
ought to have too correct a sense of pro-
pr1ety to abuse his Thanking privilege to
save expense TO them. The malls are sup
ported by the people, and the fight for a
tax on sugar is inspired by a private and
not public fnterest,-Philadelphia Record
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.l

the CElCagO News
True love talks little and acts foolish.
What the end seat hog lacks Is bristles.
Taxing advice is sometimes worse than
giving 1t.
--gh living never qualities one for the
higher life
Either take things as they come or turn
your back and let them go.
The meat trust makes the lover of pork
chops bristle with indignation.
Did you ever get nervous prostration
from trying to make others happy? No?
The 1onesomest woman in the world IS
she who hasn't any old memories to brood
over.
Pity man who thinks he is doing well
If h. stays on the water wagon between
drinks
The ancients believed that the world
was square-but that was before politics
was discovered.
Be kind to the iceman. The ancients
did not patrontze him in the good old sum-
mer time, and just look at them today.
Some people think it queer that we have
no female after-dinner speakers. but there
is nothing queer about it. Women tell all
they know before dinner Is half over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23
TILE FoorLIGHT sNmE


How brave, how strong you are
You children of the stage
To meet the crisis tense,
To grasp the griiling gauge
OF eager hungry eyes
That look to you for life,
With fairy-touch to gild
The Sordiness of strife.
To cover from the sight
If only for an hour,
The thfcket and the thorn,
And show the roseate flower.
The fairest and the best.
To charm, to win, beguile,
To lift the waiting throng.
And always with a smile!
And yet you fight for life.
For ease for love, for joy,
With toll and honest sweat.
To make yourself a toy.
To please, to coax a smile
With homeiy, honest cheer,
Perchance to stir the heart,
Mayhap to start a tear!
And you, perhaps, tonight,
(Aye. many nights of dreadD
You face the pulsing glare
With aching heart and head,
Without sign of pain,
All radiant the while.
The children Of the stage,
Who work, and grieve-and SMILE
Charles Irwin Junkin in National Mag
azine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23

The power of judicious advertising
in bringing results again has been ex-
emplifed- Baltimore offered a loan of
S5.5OO,OoO and had no takers; tightness
of the money market, it was explained.
It cut the price to 30 without materially
stimulating the demand Then Mr..
Grasty. publisher of the Sun. offered to
sell $4,000 worth of the bonds at the
newspaper office. and people poured in
and bought that block and other blocks
until The Sun had sold almost a million
dollars worth and the city has cut off
the 10 per cent discount.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-23

The Railway Age Gazette concludes
that the supreme courts decision in
the Minnesota rate case has advanced
the problem of regulation of rates
toward solution which will not be de-
structive of the rights and interests of
railways and which will at the same
time be satisfactory to the public -
While this was not the stock market
conclusion on the day following the de-
cision, says the Springfield, Mass, Re-
publican. the consensus of opinion in
the long run will sustain it,
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to the Republican party when the ma
tional committee resigns, calls a con-
vention and adopts the Progressive
platform. This is too easy a compro-
mise. We favor this, but would de-
mand that Barnes and Penrose also be
compelled to sing Onward Christian
Soldiers while Dave Mulvane comes
to the mourners' bench to make pub
lie confession of his sins. If that were
done there could be harmony"