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GOVERNORS PLACE
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Issue Is Heartily Endorsed at
Conference of State
Executives
URGE ITS ADOPTION HERE j
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Chiefs From States Where Wo- j
men Vote Testify to the Ben
efits of Equal Franchise and
Decry Its Opponents
At the recent conference of gover
nors held in Boston, woman suffrage
came in for almost as much attention
as the regular business for which the
conference had assembled. The issue
was heartily endorsed by the gover
nors and especially by those from the
suffrage States.
Eight of the twenty-nine governors
and ex-governors present were from
the States where women vote and all
of these men were warm in their
praise of the way in which the women
of their States have exercised their
franchise rights.
"I can see as much sense in ques
tioning the right of women to the
ballot as in asking if the Lord's
Prayer is a good thing," said Alva
Adams, who was twice governor of
Colorado. George N. Paulson, the
present governor of Colorado, also
ridiculed the antis' contention that
woman suffrage works harm, declar
ing that the exercise, of the ballot by
the women of his State has proven to
be a "political safety valve" on a
lumber of occasions. He added that
the charge that women are too emo
tional to vote right on questions of
{Trave importance was ridiculous and
jaid that Colorado's experience has
aeen that women are capable of ren
iering calmer judgment than men
when big issues arise.
"Neglect their homes? Of course
not;'' said former Governpr Carey of
Wyoming, the first State to enfran
:hise women. "Why should they?
Having the vote helps them to care
FORMER GOVERNOR STONE FAVORS I
WOMAN SUFFRAGE; WILL VOTE "YES"
Add to the list of the "Big Men"
Wt °* P enns yl van * a w h° favor equal
* • rights for women, the name of Gov
ft* ernor William A. Stone. In a recent
interview, this lawyer, soldier, states
man' s P° rtsman an< * all around "man's
PI a "I know of no good reason why
women should not be permitted to
| vote, except the present law. I am
v ' going to vote to change that law.
; v •• 1 should vote against woman
suffrage I would not be displaying
w V that gallantry and respect for the
\ .... ' sex which my mother taught me to
. V practice
"Voting is no more masculine than
feminine. Voting is not degrading
except as the voter degrades it.
' Women are not 'too refined' to vote.
ESP Their voting would bring the ballot
i t0 a higher state of refinement, and
" it surely needs It."
for the home as it gives them a voice
In the legislation that directly con
cerns all the questions that affect tho
home."
Women's Influence Good.
William Spry, governor of Utah, was
equally emphatic in stating that Votes
for Women was a success. "Women
have voted in Utah since Statehood
was granted in 1896, and have always
exerted an influence for safe-guarding
both the home and the State," he
said.
Governor Hunt of Arizona said that
: even the antis in his State were now
Willing to admit that none of the
evifs predicted by opponents of suf
frage have appeared.
Governor Arthur Capper of Kansaa
said:
"Kansas gave her women school
suffrage and liked it. After which
she gave them municipal suffrage
and liked it better. In 1912 she gave
them full suffrage and liked it best.
Suffrage in Kansas has broadened
woman's views of social life. It hds
centered her thoughts on home and
its needs and has given a new and
beneficial influence in the life of the
State. It has in no way detracted
from her womanliness or her charac
ter, but has strengthened both. Kan
sas will never go back to a rule of
all the people by a part of them."
The question as to whether women
really used the ballot after it was
granted them, won a laugh from Gov
ernor Dunne of Illinois. "Look at the
way they voted in Chicago," he said.
"More than a quarter of a million of
them turned out at the last mayoralty
election there."
Suffrage States Wealthy.
The high per capita wealth of the
suffrage State was Governor Moses
Alexander's answer to the suggestion
that suffrage might have a bad effect
on public finances.
"The per capita wealth of all the
suffrage States," he said, "is above
the average of those in which the
women do not vote."
"Woman suffrage is a distinct as
set to the State of Washington," said
Governor Earnest Lister. "No one,
except perhaps someone disgruntled
on account of its having interfered
with some pet scheme, has ever even
suggested that Washington was not
better for it."
All of the governors from the suf
frage States agreed that the men of
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey
and Massachusetts would make no
mistake if they approved the suffrage
amendments at the polls on election
day
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INDIANA WILL CELEBRATE
I WHITCOMB RILEY'S BIRTH
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Photo by American Press Association.
J. WHITCOMB RILEY.
The Hoosier poet is one of the most
loved men in America. His quaint
and homely verse has carried thou
j sands of people in memory away from
daily life back to days of childhood,
i The air of spring and cherry blossoms
i hovers about his writing. Indiana will
ce'c brate "Riley" day on Thursday,
Oct. 7. Mr. Riley will be sixty-six
years old.
Some Repute'."::):..
Binx—What kind of ;i rep it ti h.
Jones got?
Jinx—So good that ho < hi we i . it: ;
I buttons with- other pt-o'i.i- 50,.;,..-. . n.
! get .".way with It.—St. L-.1. I\ l Di- :
| patch.
Ruies of the Game.
Industrial success is personal, not so
i rial. Societ.f is not holding a man
! down; the exiting social system is not
keeping men at the bottom; it is their
| own personal deficiencies that keep ;
them there. Industrial success can be ;
won at a price, and the price is ob- !
j servance of the inevitable rules of the 1
j game—namely, sobriety, industry, sav
j ing. avoidance of speculation, knowl
! edge of human nature, good judgment,
common sense, persistence, intelligence
and integrity. No social system ever
keeps a man down who has these qual
ities. Is It not the best thing for the
! world to find out that industrial suc-
I cess can be won only by the display I
of these qualities?—J. Laurence Laugh
lin in Atlantic Monthly.
Channel Island Currencies.
The currency system of the channel
islands is complex. Both Jersey and
| Guernsey have a coinage of their own
and in addition permit the free circu
lation of the coins of England and
France. Guernsey's coins of copper, i
which include a half farthing, do not
go higher in value than a penny, but
pound notes are also issued. And if
| you take in Guernsey on the way back
from a holiday in France you can have
; a mathematical morning calculating
how to pay your bill, stated in Eng-
I lish, in the coins of France and Guern
i sey, for which you will have no use in
| England.—London Spectator.
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Tripoli's Socttish Admiral.
Tripoli has long had a bad reputa
tion. but reached the zenith of offeu- 1
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I siveness a century ago. when its pri
: vate fleet was organized by a rene
gade Scotchman. Peter Lyste. Desert
ing the English ship on which he was
mate. Lyste turned Moslem, married a
near relation to the reigning pasha and
soon rose to the position of lord high
' admiral of the fleet. He did a deal of
1 mischief, but came to a bad end.—Lon
don Standard.
| • A Turkish Custom.
Upon the graves of the dead in the
cemeteries little vessels of wa
ter are placed for the l>eneflt of the
birds, and some of the marble torn be
have basins chiseled out for the same
purpose, the superstition being that
birds carry messages about the living
to the dead and. like everything else
in Turkey, are susp'beted of being spite
j ful unless something is done to curry
their favor.
He Had Labored.
"1 dare say you haven't worked in
years." remarket! the hard featured
housewife.
"\*ou do me a great injustice, mum,"
said the tattered tourist. "I'm reeu
peratin' right now from a sentence of
six mouths at hard labor."—Birming
ham Age-Herald.
In the Dumps.
There was ,ouce upon a time an
Egyptian king, so it is said, who built
a pyramid and died of melancholy
I His name was Dumops. The memory
of his tragic history is perpetuated ev
ery time we say we are "in tbf
dumps."
He Took It.
TU not take 'No' for an answer. Miss
Bunker— Priscilla," he declared brave
ly as he persistently pressed his suit
"Then, sir." replied the cold and cul
tured Boston girl, rising proudly to the
occasion, "will you in lieu of that much
hackneyed negative assertion accept
my positive declination to respond con
currently to the query propounded?"
And he did.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Cynical.
He—Men are what they eat.
She—l've noticed you're fond of
"aires' brains. —Baltimore American.
K>iled by Fear.
Frederick I. of Prussia was killed by
fear. Ilis wife was insane, and one
day she escaped from her keeper and.
dabbling her clothes with blood, rushed
upon her husband while he was dozing
in his chair. King Frederick imagined
her to be the "white lady" whose glios;
was believed to invariably appear
whenever thb death of a member of
the royal family was to occur, and he |
was thrown into a fever and died in
six weeks.
A Henpecked Bird.
The male rhea, a feathered inhab ;
itant of South Africa, is very much put j
upon, for four or five hens combine to
gether and lay their eggs in one nest
'ill the total reaches twenty or more, j
when the females depart, leaving a
male bird to sit on the eggs and attend
to the wants of the young birds.
Mean Retort.
"He Rays he intends to be the archi
tect of his own fortune."
"I predict a terrible stagnation in the
building line."—Judge.
Good Reason.
Indignant Customer Barber, why
did you drop that towel on ivc face? I
Barber—Because it was hot. sir."--P,os- )
ion Globe.
Prejudice squints when it looks ana
lies when if talks.—Abrantes.
WEIGH THEIR HATS.
A Fad of Fussy Men Who Are Cranks
In the Matter of Headwear.
In the back part of a Broadway hat- j
ter's store there is a pair of scales t ;iat j
are used only in the case of particular ;
demands by particular customers As
a general thing you don't look for
scales in a hatter's, and the proprietor ;
explained his reason for having them '
in this way:
"Y'ou will often find very fussy rueD
when it comes to buying a hat. With ,
them the weight of headgear is of
prime importance. An ounce more or
less gives them the fidgets when they
have made a rule of life to wear only
such and such weights on their heads
| So I keep the scales to convince them.
It is well that I do. It has settled
many an argument with a grouch and
sold me many a hat
"You may call them queer for want
ing the exact weight they call for or
within and not over that weight; but. I
come to think it over, they are not any !
queerer than the men who rush in here
at the beginning of summer demand
ing summer headgear because they
simply can't endure their heavy winter j
hats any longer.
"Well, they buy a straw and go away
perfectly satisfied they are prepared for
summer heat. And the hat they buy?
Why. by actual weight on these very
scales it often weighs two to four
ounces more than the winter hat they
have been wearing. One of our good >
customers has regularly shifted from a
twelve ounce winter slouch to a fifteen
ounce summer straw and has been
happy in the change."
It is a fact, however, that thousands
of men know the truth of what the
Broadway hatter says, but still buy
heavy straws.—New York Sun.
Babies In Samoa.
Samoan babies can give points to
Europeans apparently. According to
A. S. Middleton in "Sailor and Beach
comber." they are much prettier and
1 very intelligent. Moreover:
They can swim at three months olil,
talk, run and sing at a year old. and if
a Samoan had a child that sucked a
dummy (presumably a comforter* ai
six years old and wailed driveling j
along in its pram at an advanced age.
as the children of the wealthy class of i
England do. they would look upon it
as a great curio and smother it for
shame on the first starless night.
John Bull.
The nickname John Bull is said to
have appeared first iu a satire by Dr.
John Arbuthnot called "Law Is a Bot
tomless Pit: or. the History of John
Bull." published in 1721. Washington
Irving mentions the typical figure as a
"sturdy, corpulent, old fellow with a
red waistcoat, leather breeches and
short, oaken cudgel. Many Napoleonic
caricatures show John Bull represent
ed in this way.
Mother Love.
"Mother machree." he said. " 'tis
worn and torn your heart is for love
cf us all."
"Jerome avick," I said to that. " *tis ;
.vorn and torn the hearts of mothers
were before me and will be again.
God help their children if they're not."
—From "Mother Machree." by James
B. Connolly, in Scribner's.
Height of Annoyance.
"I'm mad at my wife. To anger her
I shall flirt with some other woman."
"If you want to make her absolutely
furious ask some other woman to sew
on a button for you." Kansas City ,
I Journal. j
SIR PERCY NOW COMMANDS
BRITAIN'S AERIAL NAVY
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NEBRASKA IN THE LONG AGO.
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What Is Now a Cry Plain Was Once
the Bed of a Great Sea.
South of Platte river, opposite North
Bend. Neb., the bluffs are couspieu- j
ous and consist of loess and glacial j
drift, overlying the lientou shale. This
shale was formed when Nebraska was |
at the bottom of a sea Evidence of
the former presence here of sea water
is found ill the fossil shells of oysters
| mid other animals that live in salt wa
ter and the bones of such sea monsters j
as the mosasaurus.
A comparison of these ancient coudi- j
tions with those of the present day in
dicates the slow, continuous change
that is now and always has been in ,
! progress. Where the tourist now trav- [
els comfortably over a dry plain these
monsters sorted in the water of the
sea long ages ago. On the shores of
I this ancient sea lived equally strange
j beasts and birds of types that have
j long been extinct, and over its water
j sailed great flying dragons—the ptero
! dactyls.
The animals of that day were strik- !
ingly different from those of the pres
' ent. The birds, unlike any now living,
' had jaws armed with teeth. The mon
archs of the air then were not iu fact
birds but flying reptiles, whose fore
limbs had been modified into wings by
I the enormous elongation of fingers be-
J tween which stretched thin membranes
like the wings of a bat. These flying
dragons, some of which had a stretch
of eighteen feet, were carnivorous:
They were animated engines of de
struction that somewhat forcibly sug
gest the modern war airplanes, of
which they were in a sense the proto
j types.—Geological Survey Bulletin.
CORRECTED HIMSELF.
The Judge Made a Mistake and Was
Quick to Admit It.
| It was an action against an insur
ance company in a civil court to re
cover the value of a quartz mill that
had been burned. The defendant in
troduced the former foreman of the
mill, who testified that the plaintiff
had admitted to him that he had set
fire to the mill in order to get the
j insurance money.
The presiding judge knew the wit
ness and had a very low opinion of
his veracity. He also knew the plain
tiff to be an honorable and upright
man, wherefore he burst forth with
the remark. "Everybody knows that
to be a lie."
Whereupon the counsel for the in- j
surance company sprang to hi? feet in
a rage. "I object to the language or
the court," said he, "and I demand
that he be taken down and my objec
tion entered in the record."
"Certainly, Colonel Brown." said the
[ court. "You are quite right, and the
court was altogether wrong in making
such a remark. The court will en
deavor to correct the effects of its
inadvertence. Gentlemen of the jury,
I instruct you that you must disregard
my remark. Y'ou are the exclusive
j judges of the evidence and of the
| credibility of the witnesses, and it
j must have no weight with you that I
! commented as I did upon the fact that
the witness told one of the most in
fernal lies that were ever uttered in r.
courtroom."—Case and Comment
Placing His Kicks.
I do not wish to kick about this glad
and smiling earth, for I have only 1
landed here by circumstance of birth.
I find it quite a pleasant place. I'm
willing to remain. Please do not un- I
derstand me as desiring to complain,
and yet there are some changes I
should like to recommend —not as a
carping critic, but n calm, impartia' '
friend.
The tropics are too beastly hot; the 1
frigid zones too cold. Too much ex- j
I ertion is required to dig for iron and j
gold. The continents are far too large;
the ocean's full of salt. The rocks and
mountains constitute a very grievous
fault. The scheme of raining water
fr->m an accidental cloud is wasteful,
undependable and should not be allow
ed.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The Unexpected.
"Before engaging rooms in your
house." said the bachelor. "I want to
know if there are any families with
I crying babies staying here."
"I'm afraid there Is," replied the
I "andlxljr. "but we"—
if !
I; We Who Walk In
Very Quiet Ways
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We who walk in very quiet ways.
To whom the word of strange and vio
lent death
Comes over garden walls on sunny days.
When all the fruitful earth seems to
have breath—
We cannot think blood stains the trod
den wheat.
We cannot think that apple trees aro
torn
And streets like our own little village
street
Lie ruined and forlorn.
Our harvests wait unspoiled the reaper's
hand.
Our children play unravished in the sun.
We walk v. iih quiet men who understand
Tomorrow's work is what today begun.
| Yet over common task and careless word
Ring out such si uiuls as we have never
heard.
—Louise Driseoll in New York Times.
MORE MEN ARE NOW GOING
INTO PROFESSIONAL LIFE
Lawyers Incroanng Cteadily, but Pro
portion cT D>ctors the Same.
The drift toward the professions
which litis loiid been obvious comes lu
! for exact measurement in the report of
the president of the Carnegie founda
tion. who furnishes a compilation
showing population ratio of physicians,
clergymen ami lawyers in this country
by decades.
The total number of persous in these
professional classes has grown from
! 214,500 in lSyo to 414.103 in 1910, but
still not uiu h faster than the total
number of inhabitants. If reduced to
a ratio the increase Is only from 428
to each 100,000 population in ISBO up
to 450 to each 100.000 population in
1910.
For the physicians the proportion Law
remained virtually uniform for thirty
years, and during the last two dec
ades the number of ministers has uls>
exhibited small variation. The num
ber of lawyers, on the other hand,
i grew more rapidly than the population
between ISS<> and 1900, yet during the
last decade increased only one-third as
fast, being 7 per cent increase in the
number of lawyers against 21 per cent
of the entire population.
But these figures, interesting nud
suggestive as they are. do not measure
the professional drift accurately be
cause we have added many new pro
fessions. such, for example, as elec
trical, sanitary and concrete construc
tion engineers, 'charity workers and
survey exi*rts. instructors in new linea
of education which must now be rank
ed with the old professions.
BIBLE STUDENTS PREPARE.
Drexel Biddle Classes Enroll In Army
of 80,000.
The first organized religious move
ment in the United States to provide
a national defense organization was
launched in Philadelphia when the di
rectors of the Drexel Biddle Bible
classes aumv..no/! t'.irlr plans for train
ing their u embers along military
lines.
The idea, ae or Jin g to Anthony J,
Drexel Biddle. father of the move
ment. is to form a military organize
tion for peace purposes rather than for
war. Eighty thousand members of the
Bible class in thirty states of the Un
ion will be enrolled.
Thousands of these pledges have
been sent to churches:
"We. the undersigned, are American
citizens. We promise our Cod to pro
tect the flag : n 1 the honor of the Unit
States of America with our lives."
More than 2.000 signatures have been
obtained by Mr. Biddle, and he said
that fully 10.000 more were in tb#
hands of the speakers.
The Man In the Iron Mask.
The Bastille, whose fall July 14, 1789,
marked the birth of French liberty,
j was built in 13(19 to defend Paris
against the English. It Is as a state
prison, however, that the grim fortress
is remembered and chiefly on account
of the mystery of one romantic prison
er, the "Man In the Iron Musk," who
was "interned" there in 1079 and died
in 1703. As to who the prisoner actually
was scarcely two authorities agree, but
among the almost innumerable "claim
ants" have figured the Due de Verman
dois, s6n of Louis XIV.; the Due de
Beaufort, a supposed son of Anne of
Austria by the Duke of Buckingham; a
twin brother of Louis XIV. and Count
Matthioli, secretary of state to Charles
111. The last two may tie termed the
favorites.
Beetles of Prey.
Many beetles are bugs of prey. Pre
•dacious insects generally have wonder
ful appetites. The so called "green
fly," otherwise popularly known as
"golden ejes." is, as a larva, a tremen
dous gobbler of plant lice. It thinks
nothing of devouring 100 of them, one
after another, at a meal. Thus insects
themselves do much to keep the num
bers of other insects down. But not
even with their aid nor with all our
ingenuity in devising methods of de
struction could we maintain a- suc
cessful fight against injurious bugs
were it not for the help given by birds.
A Foxy Reply.
One of the most caustic regies* ever
made during an election campaign was
that of Fox when he called at a shop
(luring one of his candidatures. The '
shopman happened to be a rabid dppo
j nent. Taking hold of a piece of rop.
he said savagely: "Vote for you! Id
sooner hang you with this rope!"
"Very interesting." remarked Fox
blandly, examining the cord. "A fam
ily relic, I presume."—London Mail.