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Evening star., 1914-10-25

broken out to provide comfort for those
in the party. Numerous amusing incl
dents occurred on the run. and ample
amusement was afforded every minute
of the trip from start to finish.
AS previously stated. with the eNcep-
tion of the few miles of unbroken mac
adam the road is macadamiZed practi-
cally the entire distance between the
two cities Motorists will find this the
most desirable route of the various
ones that extend from Washington to
the Pennsylvania town.
The itinerary of the trip is as fol-
lows
Evening star., 1914-10-25
En- Route to Elliectt City.

After a, ,run of >, few miles over the
gravel road we pulled into another ir-
regular. -four corners, passing two frame
churches on -the left and bearing right
and imnediately,xo the eslet tnfound our
seIVSsssat Primers Corner. FIT miles
from tie Nat1oHSl cslpf.aL = The road
Evening star., 1914-10-25
BY HOWARD 3. FISK.

He best automobile
route between the
National Capital
and York, Pa. is
via Ellicott City.
Westminster, Lit
tlestown and Ham
over. The distance
is about 106 miles
and with the eX-
ception of a few
IN i les is macad-
amized the entire
distance. The run
is an ideal one, as
was demonstrated
last Sunday when
I h e trail-blaZinS
Buick six" of Ed
Is, Terry and a
party Of local mo-
torists secuted in
Evening star., 1914-10-25
Thomasville Soon in Sight.

Sticking to the Lincoln highway. We
soon located the town of Thomasville
on the map, and at 9S.4 miles crossed the
railroad tracks and started up the
grade through the town. At 99.3 an
Evening star., 1914-10-25

town speed-limit signs were posted in
dicating that twelve miles an hour, as
provided under the state automobile
law, was the rate for motorists.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02
GLOBE SIGHTS
By THE ATcHIsON GLOBE.

It's . disease to mediate too much.
No doubt the installment plan II quite
q help to Cupid.
The female Of the species 10 more Santa
Claus than the male.
Most Of the great men went up without
the aid Of . motto.
A married man who says he r. afraid of
NO living mortal n . liar.
A pipe isn't such q cheap smoke IL the
smoker uses his own matches.
Overtrainlng doesn't spoil many scrap
pers In the ". k. battle OF life.
Don't let the Great Issues Of the Day
interfere with your regular work.
Nearly everyone knows enough poetry
to misquote little OF 1t occasionally.
A champion chess player IL apt to be .
pretty smart man who should know bet
ter.
Christmas comes but once a year. but
Father has to do the Santa Claus act
more frequently to stand well With the
folks.
II have observed that the man who
tries to be useful as well - ornamental
around the house, frequently doesn't do
very we'll when he gets down town.
Rufe Hoskins.
Trouble a. an Argument never reaches 4
solution. Besides, Information, ~ well n
words 10 what y0u lack while INDUCING
In argument. hotwlthgtanding your aaoer-
ton to the contrary.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02
JOURNAL EHTRlH

Az . usual thing, the fiercer the ar
gument the less excuse there II for Il.
It's next to impossible TO convince
An inconsistent fellow bp's that way.
t Ra
Not . few women are anxious for
spring to come merely becauSe 1t q
house-cleaning time.
A. reformer should give moro atten-
tom to himself and less to the other
fellow. But he never does.
Poverty may not be q crime. but it
generally carries with It some pretty
severe punishment.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

he simple experiemces of ~ dny. -
.ae ON tne eag6 of her small 0od WRIT
ms 4 ont to the laNt detail for the
propoeed club papee. Then there Was
enother pnFpr1ses 1e4s lGeEaem had
he snesesfed thak she wouJd IS ac-.
ceptab1e m thu qt1dt Department, ana
she was daily relmlnded IN one Wy
or another that IN Her nv rc1e 81
9eaa she possesssd mofS than hex
Mr. Nardsn hsd 6olloved her careee
With especial intoe9ot The nrge time
he sent for her. with the excuse o1
uning In some det4t1D OF her employ
ment papers. she thought that sne va
to be discharged Alter mat he used
business. Whom he asked her - d1ne
with him after work hours she ac-
cepted. It would 6o one more mc.-
dent In the life OF the working gfr1
she thought. and. though sne. Wouso
NOT admit it to herself. there was
something agreeable in being tn Ma
society. Finally the day before oene-
We've expected to 80 home 1eWs 04ys
before she was to read her paper. ne
came unexpectedly to- her at cl0ans
hours and asked her TO dine = san
with him.
That night when 0enevisve was
back in her littla room she blamed
herself for what had happened. ~.
Marden had asked her to marry Nun
and Genevieve, without oxptamA&aoms
had refused She told him Abru0tD
that she was about to leave the city.
that she was needed at home. That
night she put away the cheap clothes
she had worn In the eteres ana. axeee
q restless night she started the noxs
morning to go back to tho things n
which she had coma to her working
Girl life. First she tried to arrange
her hair. but it refused to take on the
old Mnes. and when finally. Aftor Q
fearful struggle. she got 1t up. ohe put
on the old clothes. She looked at her
image in the mirror, and ~ she did
30 she felt the shadows of tho old re-
strained SEX coming back upon her.
With an limpetuous cry she pulled
them off and bundled them angff1y
into the wardrobe. Then rearransins
her hair IN the becoming II not 30
aristocratic manner. she decided to 30
to Mr.. Marden and explain to him.
apologize II nothing more.
A half an hour later 0enevieve, In
Mr.. 1arden's ONCE. had just finished
story-of her experiment and finally
OF her effort to resume her old iden-
tity.
IT have found out what It Il 70 b.
a working woman-what It IL to be
unhampered by the endless pretudices
Aa wAACA n3Au O0e0 Drought Up
And yet" said Mr.. Marden, slowly
you are going to give way to thu
greatest prejudice Of them all You
are not going to let yourself love me
when you could II you would only lei
yourself
Genevieve looked at him With thu
wide-eyed frankness he had admired
the first day he saw her. NO." shs
said. THAT II tho most wonderful
thing about the whole experiment."-
'(Cotyright, 1914, by the NcClurs
,Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02
QUAKER A1EDrrAraoNs.

tFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
PugfIists shake hands for the wind-up,
but clocks don't have to.
A fellow naturally feels pretty small
when he gets into ., light place.
Even the man with au open countenance
sometimes wants q CLOSE shave.
Happy IL the woman whose coffee
drives her husband to drink . second cup.
The race II not always to tho swfft,
AZ the rapid young man eventually dis
covers.
The man who writes his autobiography
literally takes his life into his own hA1dQ.
We can excuse . man who occasionally
forgets himself. provided he doesn't for
get us-
Any bald-headed man can raise q eooa
crop Of hair II he can only raise the
price Of . wig. s.
The eyes may be the windows OF the
soul but that II no reason why thov
should always have . paned expression.
6cribbler-"Oh. . man can drop into
poetry without hurting himself" Wlgwa9
LssThat's Z selfIsh. view to take OF Il. H3
should think Of others"
ssBehind the darkest cloud the sun =
shining quoted the Wise Guy. "sYea but
that doesn't keep you dry when you gee
caught out In the rain," complained Tn
simple Mug.
EVERY day vim be Sunday By ana by
exclaimed the sanctimon -lookfn4 IN
0iv1dual. ZINE Ter the speAk-eas1eas" !" r.
tnrted IL man VIII IT, tuueengfgn1u1tc
4 sfsss&E
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02
Old scout Wieeins.

Dead at the age Of 20 years, ''Old
Scout" Virgins Of Denver will not be
forgotten by those who knew him In
his old age. Few. II any, are surviv-
ing who knew him in his young man
hood. Martin Van Buren was presf-
dent Of the United States when Oliver
r. Virgins. q Niagara Falls boy, ran
away from homo at the age Of Is, lured
by the call Of the vast Wild southwest.
He became q comrade Of KIT" Carson,
II years his senior, who had made
himself ono Of the best known from
tiersmen Of his time. With Carson,
Virgins hunted. trapped. fought In
dams for several years. It was an In
dams bullet, carried in his body for
q years, that compelled the operation
from which Wi9gins died, He outlived
his captain. Kit Carson, by ls years.
Virgins fought under Fremont in the
California campaign of 1S46-47, a. did
Carson. His memories Of the campaign
were keen to the last. He had seem the
vast buffalo herds disappear; the grad
ual development Of ranching. then the
encroachment Of plantations ON the
ranching territory. He had seen q
hundred busting cities spring up In his
i wilderness. He had seen railroad after
| railroad built acruos The Rock1es. He
| had neeu tho red men almost fado away
1Sem - 1iDtay's pfet1eA H - ~
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02
hVi10R or znr D/y

Mrs. Blswsr- -Biud-''That tailor Of yours
r eettine very familiar. he had tks q
science to salute me ON the street toda4.
distanos ar eIRRs snosaS 2 vsgs as m1
dear. I'm sure I've done an I could. rye
stood that man on now for two yeaEs."-
ard works on poiifscsi economyr. Ne."
reading standard works on political econ
st.I !. ou Ee of yns : te.rs te set .ton tss
sine. Star.
Desss ~ seZs = takes number Of mag.
s pietss: ssa 81 ssmneSsn snsSss 70 9se
. 1as' " o-
,!,s sSDScse ySa % ..e c.t eil ne IN: : ~ g
Vas out eizhts dollars is On fisss aioeS lat
vestment BE made on the tip Smith gsye
HIM? "Oh. yes" what did he roali1o?'
/ What : fool ~ had been to take IT,
Is there any way to let these city
hunters k41 deef without hurting each
otherT' ashe4 one eufde. mot as 1 know
EN- loose with blank cartridges AM gfvo
| the deer . chance to laugh himself -
death -"-Washington star.
pSSSs .sss e r sossS g sSpd .sS ss e. vs
s.n so.ssE g, &c isss, ~sEsS g Ss5ts -
:sss y'sz ssse9 e 'ss ss -
SiS ffie;Ss. in ciSuSnf 7SvsFy e61.~-flS1i
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

Don't let your chickens run tho
streets. advises the Amer1cus Greetink,
for 1t might make them tough.
Crawdad. Of the Galena Republican.
quotes Bill Simpkins as saying: If you
can't control your kids. get out Of the
kid business
It IN pointed out by the Ottawa Re
public that the boycott usually results
In the boycotter securing large chunk
Of deprivation.
The sequel to the do your Christmas
shopping early story. declares the Hol-
ton Signal, II to pay your New
Years bills early.
From the Macksville Enterprise: We
legalize what we want to do: penAli1e
what We don't want other people to do.
and call it Justice. Is It?
.'4ddy Belts starts q hunt via the
Shawnee Chief for the old-fashioned
album with celluloid trimmings ON It
for Christmas.
Things are not always what they
seem. quotes the Cedar Enterprise, and
1t explains. Most Of the ''quair served
on toast at the city hotel tables are
just common barnyard Guineas.
A Cheney farmer gave an automobile
to each Of his three children the other
day. But these will be gifts with q
provide the funds. for, their gasoline
bills.
According to the Houck's Landing
correspondent Of the Hoxie Sentinel.
some genius has figured 1t out that po-
litical economy IL getting the most
votes for the least money and getting
away with 1t.
When Miss Ruth Mitten, who hap
pens to be county supeFintendent of
Harvey county. says yes the para
doxical situation Will be developed q
the lucky fellow getting the mittSn
. when. a. matter Of fact, he doesn't.
Taking a peek at the silver lining,
the Formoso New Era says: It 10 q
good thing that the hens are not lay
ing. The roads are 30 rough the eggs
would be broken In getting them to
town, and the poor hen would 6sf 10
credit for her cackle.
A bulldog killed twenty-one chick
ems belonging to a South Leavenworth
grocer one night last week, and the
grocer killed the dog, reports the Leav-
enworth Labor Chronicle and Resub-
missionist But It asks: \. hats q bull
dog for II It isn't to kill something?
This right arm swing Of much power
! comes from Miss Anna Carlson Of the
Lindsborg News: When men reach the
stage OF mental development where real
worth and a cheerful disposition in q
woman attracts them more than beauty
and accomplishments, divorce lawyer1
will have to look for other means OF
earning . livelihood.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

30 carefully are the operations Of the
gtate banks In Kansas "safeguarded''
by law, that they probably will be un-
able to participates In the many ad-
vantages of the new currency and
banking system that has been created
~ the Glass-Owen law.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

With such directly conflicting evi-
dsnce from reputable exberts ~ to his
sanity. there II little reason for won
der that the jury failed to agree ON
verdict charging Hans Schmidt, the
New York priest with murder. But
the jury stood ten for conviction and
only two for acquittal. and this II
another strong argument for revisine
the Jury system 20 that verdicts may
ai,artsss of Tia turors.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

An addition to the police force IL in
prospect. And. Of course. there - a
possibility that it meanss mora police
women. AZ q matter of fact, Topeka
seems to have at least one too many
sf this variety Of peace officers.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

,If the report II true that Victor MUIR
dock proposes to run for the United
States senate a. the candidate Of the
Progressive party. he must have made
mp his mind to discontinue his arduous
arties Of serving Kansas and the coun-
Try In Washington. and has hit ON this
means Of retiring gracefully.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

If death or flight are the only alter
natives nfronting the officers and
men Of Huerta's army in northern Mex
leo. there need be no doubt in the mind
Of any person as to which they will
choose.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

When Candof Il Needed.
II you should borrow some small
sum OF money from q friend and with.
the best intentions IN the world should
forget all about the debt. would you
want your friend to let 1t so or remind
you OF it.?
Chorus OF answers. Remind me OF
it,
(. Well, then, II you should lend q.
friend some small sum Of money and
he, with the best intentions in the
world. should forget all about the
debt, would you remind him Of It or
let it go?
Chorus Of answers, Let It 70, Of
course
Apparently. this il one Of the cases
where the rule Of 'sAs Ye Would' il
considered to have no force.
Once upon . time a very funny
thing along this line happened. Two
young gfrls-we'n call them Eleanor
and Grace, because these were not
their names-were in town shopping.
Eleanor fen short of money. and Of
course Grace promptly opened her
purse to her friend. who dipped into
1t to the extent of 81. after ascertain
ing that 1t would not embarrass Grace
and promising to return 1t the next
day at church. The next day was q
rainy Sunday: neither Of the girls
went to church; the debt was not
paid, and. as Grace happened to have
plenty Of money just then. was forgot
ten by both.
A week or two later Eleanor tele-
phoned to Grace to remind her that IL
was the birthday Of q mutual friend
for whom they usually bought q gift
together. Grace was too busy to go in
town and asked Eleanor If she would
buy the gift. promising to settle with
her later. It was just before the holi-
day season, and. In the rush OF pres
ent buying and other preoccupafions,
she promptly forgot all about the
matter. But when her money began
to run low-as money IL apt to do Just
before Christmas, she did remember
something else-Eleanor's debt to her
and she said to herself that. Of
course, dollar was q little matter and
didn't make much differences to her.
but she DID think it was very careless
of Eleanor.
In the meantime Eleanor. who re-
membered Grace's debt but not her
own, was rejecting. "And to think I
called her up and reminded her about
! that present and then went to the
bother Of buying 1t, and she hasn't
even paid her share. OF course. a
dollar isn't much, but it's the PRIN-
CIPLE Of the thing that counts."
i Wasn't that an odd situation to
come about for lack of little candor Z
!, Each girl felt q bit aggrieved.
Neither had any right to be-
/ Each girl felt she was losing ! dol
lar. Neither was losing cont
+; Both girls would have infinitely pre-
ferred to be reminded or their debt.
Neither girl would have reminded fhe
other OF her debt for anything lese
! than Wild horses.
Such . silly situation ana an for the
lack of . little candor!
wondor. There are many thing,
which are easier to preach about than
to practice. and suspect this e one
OF the occAsions when 'It were easier
to teach twenty what were good Is s.
done than be one Of the twenty to toll
low my own teaching"
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

Much publicity has been given to the
Democratic banquet to be held in To-
peka on January and the presence
1t It Of Secretary Bryan az the star or
ator. But no Information has come to
Hight ~ yet a. to the price that the
Kansas Democrats will have to pay Mr..
Bryan for his trouble. And that il Z
most interesting feature Of the AFFAIR.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

There can be no complaint Of the
laws delays in at least one California
case. A murderer was arraigned In q
Justice court in Los Angeles, held for
the superior court. arraigned there,
and tried, convicted and sentenced, all
within q period Of two hours.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

DR.. Harding IL undoubtedly right
when she declares that there Il an enor-
NOUS waste in the distribution of char
1ty in Topeka. But such q condition Of
axairs II by no means exclusive with
Topeka. Z prevails in every other city
IN the country where charity IL dispens-
"a. This. however, II no reason why .
remedy should not be applied. And
more power to DIR. Harding's good right
arm In the new crusade she has begun
IN this direction.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

Champ Clark admits that he is lee
turing for revenue only. says the Chi
cago Record-Herald, thus permitting
It to be known that he is not ashamed
Of his Democratic principles.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

Neither can the cancer problem b>
considered solved until science discov'
ers . cure considerably more available
than radium. -
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

BY no stretch Of the imagination
could 1t be said that it was a Happy
New Year in the Kansas political
arena. and particularly in the ranks Of
the Republicans and the Progressives.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

TEACHERS TO STUDY ABROAD.
''Cities should grant leave with half
pay to modern language teachers who
will go the expense Of study abroad. .
declares William b. Snow Of the Bos-
tom English high school in q bulletin
just issued by the United States bu-
reau Of education. On the whole DIR.
Snow thinks modern language instruc-
tion in our best schools is as good As
that abroad. in proportion to the time
allowed. I'VE need more good teach
ers and an opportunity for selected
pupils to begin the study Of aNforeign
language under competent instruction
in the grades. The colleges should give
special attention to preparing teach
ers of modern languages"
In speaking Of the various methods
Of language instruction.: each with -itk
ardent advocates. Mr.. Snow says tho
reason the discussion wakes 20 warm
is that all the methods have some good
features; that nearly everything de-
pends upon the teacher. Tho worst IT
a dozen methods, employed by q strong
teacher with underlying purpose we'll
in mind. will give q more valuable
IIdIHluK 0uQ OGtl0H I0UuAt8 kA1Skn 8Ay
method when employed BY an inferior
teacher.
TT IL probable. too. that one method
10 better than another for doing some
things. but less effective In securing .
different end, 30 that the aim which
seems most important will determine
the method to be used IL a particular
case. Instead Of trying to lay out in de-
tail the best method we should con-
slider various methods that have beer
found good, endeavor to SEQ wherein
their merit lies, and decide what meth
Cd seems especially well suited to var1-
GUS conditions and to different types
of classes or teachers"
On the question Of whether CONVEX
sation or translation should be em.
phasixed in teaching modern languages
Mr.. Snow insists that both demand
teaching Of the very highest type to b<
/ effective: that both are valuable
TRANSLATION has its warm friends and
its bitter enemies. Reformers have
worked as hard to drive e out Of the
class a. they have to drag converse.
ton in. The difficulty is that thu
meat in the sand ich has a tend.
| ency to drop out and leave only tbs
bread; translation comes to be a me.
chanical substitution of the words o.
one language for the words Of another
with little or no thought in the process
while translation ought to mean tn,
study Of . passage un l its thought II
clearly apprehended. and then an ef
fort to put that exact thought into tn.
other language with all the force an.
beauty that our command Of the sec
/, ond language makes possible
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02
RON OTHER PENS
JAPAN AND NNxTco

MI. De u Bafra's visit to Japan on .
cesSomSn,:i g ~,ssa1n s on was cSviously t,ksn
ansse eovernmenf in Toxic to indulge Ia
an anti American demonstration. The
& not more ssss
Ct the Galifosnia alien land iesisietion.
the streets Of Toxic. MI. De Ia Barrs him
self cannot 1--we in Mexico, ana his mission
s. Ssfossp apan h IKE Is that aof;f. e Cen a1 Felix s D
ssss.. ois.sl ..esPsiesa Z. % Tei,o p that 4
the attitude Of the japanese government
since sienined its unwillingness to re-
fs eS1vs .se Gsn r;.s;o sii5 Dias Who wss sent On
Cenada at the time he heard Of the
mikado's coldness toward him, ana forth
yith yith he turned about and went to Europe.
presidential candidate against Gen. Huerta
may explain somewhat the cautious atti-
sss o. ensg oussa! M ps e
terpretine the miksdo's reception Of the he
United states. The Japanese government
tude throughout the civiI strife in Hesico,
wait until the Huerta government was
harder pressed than ever to show special
.ympathy with it--Sprfngfield. Mass.
BOY AND GIRL FARMERS
1t b little wonder that ofHicers Of south
ern railroads make frequent report OF the
things accomplished by the boys in corn
southern states. There are such clubs in
other parts Of the country, but thus far
one boy In South Carolina grew nearly 20
bushels Of corn on . single acre In $40,
and this year boy IN Alabama has Z
record Of 23z.7 bushels ON q single acre
Of course the great Point y that such re-
suits in comPetition with every other sec-
ton OF the United States show that the
southeast part OF the Union 10 equal to
any other and perhape even meets any
figures for corn production. The high va
ter mark Of girls in the canning club field
is that attained by Georgia girl. . NiG9
Clyde Sullivan. who grew 8 ~ pounds Of
tomatoes on q tenth Of an acre, beating 81
over 1.So0 pounds the highest record made
by any other girl In the Union, even
though a South Carolina girl was second
with a record Of nearly Aseo pounds ON =
tenth OF. an acre. Here 10 . field Of COM
petition Of the finest sort. II n sure to
have great influence ON future production
in America within = few years time
Buffalo News.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

National prohibition might also help
70 resuscitate the express companies It
would then have to be shipped all over
the country from Canada or Mexico. -
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

It might b possible for New York
to be happy without trunk murder
mystery, but It 10 seldom necessary.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

Nor can the woman suffragists resist
me income tax any more passively
ohan anybody else who has to pay 1t.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

Just 70 show that men will do any
thing once. . good many Of them be-
ean keeping diaries this week.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

Mayor Mitchell. Of New York. has
ceased going to dinners. The Tam
many tiger. however. quit eating In
November. -
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

Orville Wright promises an aeroplans
- ''fool-proof' ls the automobile Bu
where II the ''fool-proof' automobile
The Topeka state journal., 1914-01-02

A whole week Of skating weather u
. great deal to hope for in conjunction
With q whole week OF vacation.