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'eWell-er-you see"

- 49, JOA 500
mo, you see! Laidlaw," interrupted
the lawyer briskly, Eve been studying
young Robert and I'm glad to observe
his sense, courage and fidelity to an
ideal. He'll work out right and make
you proud of him If you leave him,
alone"
Yes, but he may make friends
among the-well, the lowly-that may
be a detriment to him"
What" rallied the lawyer, latter
your proud-tempered Miss CARING
toni"
But suppose he should fall in love
with some poor girl?"
Suppose he did? Do you want to
spoil his happiness? No, you go right
ahead on the course we have marked
out. Robert is no fortune hunter or
he wouldn't have chosen you instead
of your brother, he would never have
risked catching an heiress by under
taking mental employment. He's gen.
uine," concluded the attorney True
blue all through and all of the time.
He'll land right. Mark my words"
There came test. An unexpected
event transpired. James Laidlaw died
and In will he had planned to change
when his nephew refused to live with
MIN, but which he had neglected to do,
his sole heir was Robert.
Now he'll go off on his own hook.
suppose, grumbled Mr.. Laidlaw
to his lawyer; mo further use for me-"
Wait and see," advised the law
yer.
1t was a week later when Robert
came into the library and addressed
his relative.
Uncle Henry" he said bluntly, Il
want you to accept half of the fortune
Uncle James left me. You were closer
to him than am, and should by right
inherit it. You are not rich"
who told you that?" exploded the
old man. IF I've hidden my wealth
from you, it was for a purpose. All
the same" he said in lower tone,
I'm glad to see that you have loyal,
grateful heart"
q uAfAoAOA, NJ mdtLoE WIldL you
say" declared Robert, you see, if we
could all live together"
"We-aren't we? What you up to
now?" demanded the old man suspi-
ciously.
"Why-you see, there's a Nellie"
"And who is she?''
Let me bring her around and see,"
suggested Robert, which he did.
She was not of the born princess
type-only modest, retiring girl-but
inside of five minutes she had wound
herself about the old mans ingenious
heart just as she had done with Robert
Laidlaw.
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Bible 70 Cost More

The American Bible society has sent
out a warning to its friends and pa
irons that the price of Bibles and 9th
er publications issued by it are likely
to be advanced in the near future.
The European war, through increas
ing the prices of paper and other raw
material used in publishing houses, is
given as the cause.
The Bible society officers state that
they recently have placed orders for a
large quantity of paper at the price
they have been accustomed to pay.
But all materials used in printing
Bibles have advanced from 10 to 100
per cent and future purchases prob
ably will cause an increase.
Announcement is made that the
stock of Bibles and books printed in
foreign languages, previously pur-
chased from Germany, is being rapidly
exhausted and the society is unable to
I'LL all orders received.
There is no indication at present
when the stock will be replenished, ac-
cording to the announcements that
have been sent to the members and
patrons of the society.
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Z Z The Car s
y Rider Z
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~ BY Walter Delaney ~
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BY Walter Delaney
8 & * * * IL a

Copyright. 1916. by W. G. Chapman.)
l was for years train rider. Do
you know what that means? If you
do. you are wiser than the great ma
jority, for the phrase is a new one
and covers a calling somewhat
unique. A train rider l was, with all
its jar, risk and peril, and would prob
ably be one today but for Imogene-
peerless. patient, Notwithstanding
all my joys.
A train rider is man not listed as
a railroad employee, but always on
their corporate pay roll. He is a spe-
cial officer. The pay Is eighty-five
dollars per month, and fifteen dollars
extra for expenses. The work is
neither regular nor onerous, only the
train rider of a railroad division must
be at the censorious and unalterable
beck and call of the railroad at all
odd. even or unusual hours.
In a word. my functions were these:
to proceed on order to q certain train,
to locate special freight car and un-
til that car left the end of the division
not to allow 1t or its contents to leave
my sight for single moment Of time.
When / turned my watch and ward
over to the car rider of the next d.
vision my duties were completed, all
except sending in report Of any I'M
toward incidents that might attend
the transmission Of the car Of which
was the guardian.
Sometimes it was a blooded horse,
more often an opulent shipment of
bullion, once few small boxes con-
tanning watch springs. Valueless
seeming tiny pieces OF steel, 1 was
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NInht and the stars.

We are too much indoors, remarks
writer in Golfers. Even when night
comes we turn up the lamp and sit
within its excluding circle to read
what other indoor men have written,
or we go out, hastily and under cover
of the street lights, to get within 9th.
er walls where folks are gathered to
see or hear something Of what others
have done in films and plays and lee
lures. Or we sit on a shaded porch
with trees about, SO that the vast en-
circling night is only GOODNESS and a
breeze. The stars do not get much
chance at us. Thus we keep the uni
verse away from our souls. Such liv-
ing makes for pettiness Of the spirit.
These scandalizing, gossiping little vii
lagos always live under roofs and be-
hind blinds and curtains as if in am
bush, that each inhabitant might be
in wait against the reputation of the
other.
Almost all of those who wrote the
Bible lived in flat-roofed houses and
went up on the housetop when day
was done, so that the wheeling planets
and the whole host of the stars were
their familiars.
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In some of the East Indian islands
and on the mainland of Hindustan
are to be found the smallest species
Of honey bees in the world. These
dwarf honey collectors are known to
entomologists as Apis florea. Their
honeycombs are no longer than
child's hand and the cells are about
the size of a small pin head. This
honey is excellent, as is the wax. The
little creatures build the comb on
the branch of low tree, and as they
have not to provide for winter they
work all the year through, raising
broods like themselves.
In the same land there is species
of giant bees, Apis dorsata, as large
as field cricket. These monsters of
the bee world build honeycombs that
are from six to seven feet in length,
four or more in width, and weigh
from 300 to 400 pounds each.
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APT DESCRIPTION OF AIRMAN
Seeretary's Bright Thought Abruptly
Put an End to the Troubles Of
the POSTMASTER.

The POSTMASTER was preparing for
his duties. He looked over the list Of
speakers.
Here is Won Soar" he said to his
secretary. He's the crazy airman,
you know-the fellow who does aero
batic stunts in midair I'd like to in
troduce him in some original sort of
way. Can you think of anything?"
The secretary straightway looked
thoughtful.
How would it do to call him the
lark of the loop-the-loop?
Don't like it."
"The soaring tumblebug?"
mo, no."
1.-THE snipe of the somersault?"
81 don't think he'd be pleased"
The secretary looked more thought
full.
What does he really DOR
why, he flies upside down and cuts
figure S's."
The secretary frightened up.
Figure SIS I've got it! Call him
the Flying Pretzel!"
"Fine!" cried the POSTMASTER.
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Copyright. 1915. BY ". G. ChaDman.3

-~~Ss O~e~~~~e~~->@sS
Robert Laidlaw faced life, serious
and practical, at the age of eighteen
and took up its burdens like the sem
sible young man that he was. A sud
den call from home had torn him away
from pleasant student life, to find his
father dying.
It's the breakup, Robert" his faith
er had the strength only to say, life.
fortune, future for me. l have lost
about all l had. The doctor says I
have only few hours to live. l saw
what was coming and l wrote to my
two brothers, James and Henry. Here
are their replies Choose for yourself,
Robert, between the two
"As to what, father?" inquired Rob.
ert.
"As to which you will live with,
Both want you. Both are bachelors.
Both will leave fortune. It is vast
relief to me to know that you will
not be without prospects"
1t was week later and after the
burial Of his father and the settlement
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Not Always sxnonxmous.

Mary, writing letter: Which shall
l say, Mrs. Brown called last evening,
or Mrs. Brown called last night?"
Earl, looking UP from his paper: Ell
Their expression will do; they mean
the same thing"
IF that is the case, why do we say
Good evening when a visitor calls,
and Good night when he goes?"
From force of habit. presume
Evening and night are synonymous
terms"
They may be synonymous, but
when my name appears in the society
columns l guess you would rather
have the report say that l appeared
clad in a tasteful evening gown in
stead of saying l was clad in taste
full night gown. Pittsburgh Chron-
icle-T Telegraph.
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him farther down the line.

ulm IarLner down the line.
l slid and, lying extended, seized
the rod of the brake wheel. He would
be upon me in another moment. when
he uttered a sharp cry. Turning, |
saw figure beside the open trap. |
saw the ankle of my enemy seized.
He was swung backwards and then
squarely over the side of the car into
space.
The grill In flashing second un-
derstood it all She had got down into
the car hours before, doubtless fright
ened into hiding from the man who
was looking for her. She had thrown
back the scuttle cover just in time to
save the freight and myself.
And now, having shown the cour-
age of true woman, she became tim
Id and reticent. l could not influence
her to explain her situation "Only
to get away from persecution" she
uttered more than once, and shud-
dered. Only to find some secluded
home, shelter, safe retreat for a
single MONTH"
won upon her confidence during
that strange night journey. When we
reached the terminus / took her to the
home of my sister. She told her
everything, but the. information was
not impaired to me then.
The company traced the man who
had been halted so summarily in his
scheme to loot the special car. They
found him cripple for life and broke
up his thieving gang.
By the end of the month my mys-
terry girl became my true love. In an
other thirty days l was ordered by
this imperious little tyrant to abandon
hard work and peril.
For am an heiress, you see," said
Elvira, land the cruel guardian / was
escaping from, bent on forcing me to
marry his son, has no further power
over your loving and happy wife" So
/ ceased to be car rider, but blessed
the day ever that made me one,
whereby gained the love of the dear
est little woman in the world.
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chIvaIrous Playwright.

Dion Boucicault, when his first play,
London Assurance" was accepted by
the manager of Convent Garden, Lon
don, refused to have the play produced
in the original version because it gave
no part to Mrs. Nesbit, an actress for
whom he had conceived high boyish
infatuation, and rewrote the whole
work in an incredibly short time so as
to supply her with tie role he wished.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-06-13
REAL CHAMBER OF HORRORS
Attic in New York's Criminal Court
Building Poor Place to Spend a
Pleasant Afternoon.

Any attic is collector of forgotten
relics as thickly enveloped in associa-
lions as in dust. But In the attic of
the normal household there is very lit
tie that is gruesome and much that
is tender, and humorous, in it's
associations. The ghosts of the past
which Turk under the domestic caves
are for the most part kindly, though
some may be melancholy and some
foolish. One finds them, on rare visits
to their musty retreat, making a gen.
tie appeal to ones heart, seeking to
soften ones facial lines with ghostly
caresses, coaxing philosophical well
come.
We dwell upon these characteristics
simply to. emphasize the contrast pre-
sented by the fearsome wraiths haunt
ing the attic of the criminal courts
building. A spring housekeeping
there, the first in many years of crime,
has discovered among the dust-gath-
ering contents a thousand suits taken
from the bodies of murdered men,
including the clothing worn by Caesar
Young, by Stanford White and Herman
Rosenthal. There was the trunk in
which Elsie Siegel's body was found.
There were gambling outfits captured
In the spectacular raids of William
Travers Jerome. There were weapons
of every description, the agencies of
murder and assault-in fact, an ac-
emulation of criminal exhibits cover
ing decade and more of the city's
history and recalling to mind host
of half-forgotten tragedies and sad
failures and grim triumphs of JUS
tice.
Perhaps it is not altogether fair to
call this chamber of horrors our COM
munal attic, since to be completely
representative it should gather also
those more wholesome relics of peo-
pies activities which eventually find
their lodgment in museums And yet
until this criminal courts attic more
nearly resembles in contents Of asso-
citation the domestic species the mil
lennium will seem too far off to bother
about.-New York Tribune.
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Charm Widely lJsed.

It is curious to note in how many
forms of ornamentation the Swastika
appears. In Italy it has been discov-
cred on urns in which the dead were
encased; in the Swiss lake district it
was stamped on pottery; in Scandi-
navia it appears on carved pins and
brooches; in China and Japan it was
frequently employed on porcelain and
sometimes used as a potter's mark
and a pattern on silks. Among the
Indians of North and South America
cooking utensils and ornaments bear
the sign. In every instance it signi-
fes good luck"
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Needs Must.

81 think I'll go in for aquatic sports
this summer"
81 didn't know you cared for that
sort of thing"
Il don't, but that suburban lot l
bought seems to be better adapted for
boating and swimming than for any
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PLAYING Safe.

I'm going to take my vacation early
this year.
Whats the idea?"
''By the time the firm finds out how
easily they can get along without
me the other fellows will be taking
their vacations and my job will be
safe until the summer is over any
way"
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Mount Holly
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Chautauqua-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-18
Will "MOB" CONGRESS
Avalanche of ''Drys'' to Force National
Amendment in December.

indianapolis. Ind, Nov. 18.-A
mighty mobilization of men and wom-
en-, representing the leading temper
ance organizations of the country, Will
storm congress when it reassembIes in
December in an effort to procure a
national prohibition amendment. Miss
Anna A Gordon, president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance union.
told 500 delegates here attending the
annual convention today.
In pointing out that the big task
now remaining for the prohibitionists
is in the big cities. Miss Gordon said
The large cities are the strong
holds of the enemy. One-sixth of the
population living in liquor territory is
IN SIX cities: one-half of the saloons
of the United States are in fourteen
cities New York City alone has more
saloons than are found in thirty-six
states" ga
William J. Bryan starts his four-
year prohibition campaign with a tall
before the convention Saturday night
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600 represents very likely less than
one-fifth of the total amount of life
insurance written in Kansas and Mis-
souri,, what a tremendously fertile
field lies before a young and vigorous
company like Mr.. Broker has organ
lied at Sa1ina with George Ripke as
president; Howard Dreher, Sr., as vice
president; DR.. E. NJ Miers as medical
director; Karl Won Harlessem, as as
sistant secretary; David Richie, as
counsel; H NJ. Leonard as actuary,
with himself as secretary and man
ager. One new company in Kansas
after operating onIy half a dozen
years has more than 100000 of
business on its books, and, in getting
it, barely scratched the surface.
Chance of a Lifetime.
So when Felix Broker, with the as
sistance of DIR. E. NJ. Miers George
Ripke, Howard Dreher and his other
associates, organized the Globe Life
Insurance company in Salina, the
young, brilliant and ambitious finan-
cier simply was following an impulse
born of the knowledge that right here
in Salina, the Heart of Things as They
Ought to Be, there was waiting, ripe
and juicy, the opportunity of its life
time.
How did he know it?
Well, the query could be briefly an
swered by stating that Felix Broker
is a keen, far-seeing, practical insur-
ance man. and knew it as we'll as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-18

Germans are, the present secretary
and manager of the Globe Life Insur-
ance Company evidently concluded
that teaching in the schools of the
United States is not precisely the for
tune-building profession it might have
been Cracked up to be.
Anyhow young Broker decided
there were greater opportunities for
of the heart of America, and went over
to Topeka for the purpose of consult
ing Otto Kuehne on the subject. Otto,
whole-hearted, fat and emphatically
successful-the Heinz of Kansas-put
with, and within a year the successful
ger of this prosperous Topeka institu-
ton.
Yet, every inch ambition, every
fibre of his being tuned to the high
pitch of enthusiasm, this young Ger
man who had dreamed of fortunes in
America was by no means satisfied.
Having crossed one ocean, this recent
ly adopted KanSan longed for the
broad expanse of another quite differ
ent-an ocean of financial possibili-
ties, where men of optimism, and dis
tfnctive ability to match. become mas
tiers of the ship called Destiny.
And that is exactly why Felix Broe-
ker decided to become an insurance
man. And he was wise enough not to
regard it as at all necessary to leave
Topeka in order to perform the evo1u-
ton. He found in the person of
Charles A. Moore, general agent for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-18

finest life insurance companies be-
tween the Mississippi river and the
Rocky mountains"
Sought Strong Associates.
Bubbling over with optimism-and
that is an expression which fits him
like the paper on the walP'-Mr.
Broker nevertheless, when he saw the
golden opportunity for establishing
the Globe Life Insurance Company in
Salina, used the good judgment not to
bank too heavily upon either his own
ability or the astounding resources of
Salinas territory, and additionally
fortified his new enterprise at the be-
ginning by selecting board of officers
and directors who as individuals and
business men stand high in the estima-
ton of central and western Kansas.
Knowing, in other words, that success
fully organizing life insurance COM
panies in Kansas, Notwithstanding the
states progressive and patriotic ten
denotes, has never been walk
away" he shrewdly estimated the per-
sonal element as one of the greatest of
the company's present and future
assets.
George Ripke, the president, for in
stance, is vice president of the Western
Star mills of Salina, one of the best
known milling concerns of the state,
and by his activity in visiting the
Black sea district of Russia in the en-
deavor to select wheats for the inn
provement of the central and western
Kansas product has been of great
value as a friend to the Sunflower
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CUT DOWN ON LEATHER
Shoes Soon Will BE SoIed With Rub-
Der and Fiber.

Boston. Nov 1S.-Thirtv doI1ar
SHOES were predicted by shoe and
leather men at their annual meeting
at the Hotel Somerset.
Alfred w. Donovan, a large shoe
mand shoes of all leather. thev viii
nave to pay high for them soon. He
predicted that within three months the
majority of women's shoes viii have
10 nave cloth tops He said:
country for the next wear o,If ' J,lts
VIII only furnish leather enough for
TOUR pairs of shoe uppers. whereas a
fuI grown hide will make uppers for
many pairs of Shoes Manufa ct1rars
nave got to use rubber and fiber com
positions for soles in the future IL
they are to keep the shoe 49, -
down" Oe prices
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AFTER COAL MEMS SCALP

TOT SHUT WVIsnt-Dam-
age Suits to Follow.
New FORK, Nov. 1S.-As a result of
a campaign to prevent fraud bv short
weight, AZ coal dealers have been
summoned to court for delivering less
coal than they had been paid for.
Inspectors of the bureau of weights
and measures have taken loaded coal
wagons to certified scales where the
actual weight was compared with the
weight entered on the drivers sims.
Action has been taken to recover per-
sonal damages for each offense
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Little Journeys inthe Hearto America

influential banker and stockman OF
Lincoln Kan. who is president of the
Lincoln State bank; George L.. Tribe
of Palco, one of the best known of the
wealthy merchants of western Kansas,
and A. G. Schneider. president of the
webster State bank, Webster. Kan.
And Senator S. NJ. Porter. the grand
old man and pioneer OF southern kan-
sas, who put Caney on the map as
railroad town and still Is building
railroads, is another director OF the
Globe.
Howard Dreher, sr., director and
cashier in the office of the Globe. stud
led law in Pennsylvania, but came west
thirty years ago and entered the nun
Der business In eastern knnsas. ior
thirty years his father, well known 10
Mr. Ripke, president of the Globe, was
Der of a fine old Quaker family-ani
his friends point out that this Oil
Quaker descendency accounts IN part
for Howard Dreher's reputation as one
of the squarest men in Kansas.
With 1t. Heart and Soul
With such men as his associates and
backing him heart and soul in his am
bition to give Salina one of the great
life insurance companies OF the West,
it is small wonder that Secretary and
Manager Felix BROKER dreams of the
day when the activity of the GLOBE
Life Insurance company shall by no
means be confined to the Sunflower'
state.
Largely it was their influence that
caused the Globe Life Insurance conn
pany to ..go off with a whoop" FROM
record it made: The first meeting OF
the incorporators was held on llecem
Der TO- 1915. On December 16 the char
te= was granted. On December IS the