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8 THE KANSAS CITY TIMES, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1911. making Columbus Day a "public" hollday instead of a "legal" holiday, LEGITIMATE BUSINESS. Mr. James J. Hill asserts that the newspapers and politicians are preventing men from starting new industrial papers and what responsible politicians enterprises.

What responsible, newscould Mr. Hill specify that are antagonistic to legitimate business undertakings? Legitimate business undertakings being understood to be those that aim to earn reasonable profits lawfully through performing some useful service to the community. "THE LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN." A dispatch containing a world of human interest was printed in The Star yesterday afternoon. It was the bit of gossip from Indianapolis calling attention to a poem published in the issue of one of the magazines, current, woman who recently parted from her husband. The poem is called "The Land of Beginning Again." If you didn't read it, you will be interested in looking it up in the paper.

As poetry it isn't great. But it is a striking and poignant expression of a feeling that probably most persons have experienced at one time or another--a feeling of keen regret with over mistakes made in friends, particularly in intimate friendship of all; the "little praises unspoken," and all the rest. Happily most of us have learned the way to the Land of Beginning Again, which the woman from Indianapolis, seems to have missed. But read the verse. It's worth while.

ADVICE TO READERS. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord and Isaiah raxiv, 16. Holland's Booming Church Tower. From the Travel Magazine. The 280-foot tower of the Nieue Kerk in Middleburg, "Long John," or "Lang Jan," if the sobriquet be translated into Dutch, is practically the Washington! Monument of Walcheren.

It 18 capped with a climax of forty bells that chime a quaint fragment of some familiar popular melody every seven and one-half minutes. On the hour, "Long John" literally vibrates from foundation to weather vane in a frenzied endeavor to pour forth in toto the accumulation of more or less music adminstered in small doses during the prevous sixty minutes. From "Long John" one can see plainly the towns on the north and west coasts of Walcheren, and often even the spires of Antwerp are visible, while directly below- -a mass of red roofs, punctured here and there with patches of trees, stretches Middleburg. the left is the Pro market place, bounded on the north by the handsome town hall begun in the Sixteenth Century, the embellishment of whose facade by twenty five ancient statues of the counts and countesses Holland, helps it to hold its place as one of the finest and most interesting late- Gothic edifices in the Netherlands. tower of the town hall has a chime, too, and each time after "Long John" so insistently proclaims the hour of day night- "Long John' takes the credit of giving standard time to Middleburg- it must get a bit on his nerves to have "Foolish Betsy" up in the town hall tower, rattle of her cacophonous contradiction a minute or two earlier or later, as the case may be.

Finding Homes for Cats. From the New York Times. For every life a cat has there seems a way to find the animal a good home. One of the ways was sprung on a policeman who patrolled Ninety-seventh Street the other morning at daybreak. In a basement area he noticed a tightly sealed willow basket bobbing up and down apparently of its own volition in front of a basement door.

"Baby," grunted the policeman, although even he could not see how a baby small enough to go into the basket could cause such violent commotion. Cautiously he raised the corner of the lid and saw not a baby, but 8 cat. Accompanying the cat was a note. "Please give Ethelbert a good home. He is a fine mouser.

We are leaving town and cannot take him." The policeman aroused the cook. Presa ently the whole family appeared. "It's up to you," said the officer. Ethelbert is a fine looker and he behaves like a gentleman. Do you want him?" "We will keep him," said the housekeeper, "but what a funny way to dispose of a cat.

Why didn't they give him away or sell him if they didn't want to turn him adrift?" guess," said the policeman, "they thought he'd find a better home this way." WHAT SPANKINGS ARE FOR. Short Ones Follow Small Offenses and Long Ones Great Sink. W. Foley, du the Times. This morning Proto up hoping I would be a good boy all day long and sup' prize the whole family.

Befoar breakfast I only got one short spanking, one scolding, and a box on the ear, which is pretty good for 9 years old. Mostly I get two spankings befoar breakfast, and sometimes one a long one. A short spanking is for small migchuffs and a long spanking 18 for great sinns. In our house it goes something like this: Asking too many questions--short spanking. Not shutting up short.

Knowing better- -short. Upsetting something that does not break-short. Upsetting something that breakslong. Playing with matches -long. Setting a fire near the barn--long.

Bothering papa- -scolding. Bothering mamma short spanking. Bothering the girl- box on the ear. There are more of them, but I do not have room them all down, Also not time enough. Sometimes it might take all day to write down the list.

Most boys know It anyway. Also their parents. If boys and their parents understood each other better there would not be so spankings. Not 80 many boys would run away to fight Injuns and come to a bad end. A gurl does not get as many spankings as which is the reason she is not as tuff.

A gurl does not have the gurm of, mischuff as plentyful as a boy does. they are smaller gurms. Couldn't Foil Excise Officers. Paris Letter to the London Daily Meil. The French excise officers made a smart capture the other evening on the French frontier of Belgium, where smuggling is carried on habitually with the greatest daring.

The officers had been for some time on the lookout for a large motor car which was known to make frequent trips across the frontier carrying large amounts of contraband. About 7 o'clock the contraband car dashed past the custom house Dronckaert fat a rapid speed. Rockets were sent up to warn the neighboring customs stations. and three barricades made with carts and harrows were hastily thrown up. The car managed to get through two of the obstructions, but was thrown against the embankment of the road by the third.

Of the two occupants of the car escaped, while the other was arrested. The car contained over three thousand pounds of tobacco. IN KANSAS CITY FORTY YEARS AGO. From The Kansas City Times, October 12, 1871. Pumpkin pies are epidemic now.

H. Ganz Brother removed to Long's new building yesterday. The matinee at Frank's Hall failed yesterday from lack of audience, The sidewalks are being repaired on Main Street--a timely improvement. One dollar pays the fare from Leavenworth and return during the exposition. H.

W. Cooper Co. removed to their new building on Main Street yesterday. The opera house is having a mammoth advertising board put up at the corner of Fifth and Main streets. A very wise appointment-our Democratie friend, George A.

Smitz, was yesterday made deputy constable of Kaw Township. Some manipulator of drugs in this city is reported to have filled a quinine prescription with morphine and two children in Clay County are now In their long sleep. Wholesale dry goods, notions, gloves, shirts and drawers. J. M.

Shelley 306 Delaware Street. We give up most of our space this morning to a full description of the great fire, incidents and effects, by a Times reporter, Mr. J. G. Panghorn.

Mr. Panghorn was on his way East on a visit and the fire broke out during his stay in Chicago on Saturday night. He was led to remain and see it out and, though in the city through it all, he was unable to obtain the use of the wires at any price to send us specials. On Monday he went as far east as Fort Wayne, trying at every telegraph station, but with uniform result- was impossible. It is fortunate for our reading public that Mr.

Panghorn thus happened to be on the ground at the time, and his full and extended report will be read with Interest morning. The commencement of the Mendicott trial took place last Tuesday at Garnett, Kas. Forty-one jurors were impaneled these were exhausted; thirty-six more were summoned last night. THE GARB OF THE AIR. From the New York Tribune.

Miss Mathilde Moisant, at left, and Miss Harriet Quimby in aerial costume tan aviation meet at Mineola Park, N. Y. turles. Now up there" -pointing on the other side of the bridge- "you see that and 9-story pagoda? So. temple, the tengshui has it that unless a man sitting on the topmost grave down there has a clear view from the bottom to the top of the pagoda, none of the spirits of the housed thereabouta can By an unlucky chance the bridge comes in between and because we couldn't build it low enough for the spirits to see over it we build it high enough for them to see under.

The chief engineer will tell you just how much the change cost, but I think it was in the vicinity of $50,000." Traveling Sands of France. From Harper's Weekly, French geologists have been investigating the march of the sands along the northern coasts of France, Belglum and Holland. A fine sand originating on the shores of Normandy has been found distributed on the beaches as far east as Denmark. One investigator has shown that the eastward march of these sands is due to the fact that all the sea waves approaching the coast from Brittany eastward break in nearly parallel lines, with an easterly motion. The result is that the sands always progress in that direction.

But the process is slow and gradual, and measurements have proved that the sand traverses, forward and backward, perpendicular to the shore, a total distance eight thousand times as great 8.8 that which it covers, in the same length of time, in eastward journey. MISSOURI NOTES. Ed Swain of the Kirksville Express invited the physicians of the town to contribute articles dealing with the pre vention of typhoid and other contagious diseases. Of course, the doctors just flooded the Express with communications! Dr. G.

B. Cowgill has enlarged the Cowgill Chief and is writing poetry with greater speed and fervor. The sweet singers of Clay and Lafayette counties would do well to keep their weather eye on Doc. "A woman who ran a boarding house for several years," says the Lamar Dem ocrat, "said the other day that if a boarder finally didn't get mad about something and leave she eventually had to fire him, as he gradually got the notion that he owned the place." "The unprovoked murder of one inno cent student boy by ten negroes is an abominable crime that calls aloud for punishment," says the Monett Star. The last time we visited Monett a native told u8 that in that town they didn't permit a Pullman porter to alight on the depot platform and "limber up" while the engine crew was taking water.

Occasionally someone in Saline County is induced to farm, and when he does there established a "always new record for farm prices. In Saline recently 308 acres were for $64,680, or $210 per acre. Very few counties on this earth have richer soil than is found in the vicinity of Marshall. Cameron is endeavoring to build a sewer system by private subscription, and several gifts of $100 each show, says the Cameron Sun, "the intensity of their earnestness." The Leeton Times invites farmers to do their marketing that town, pointing out, as a special inducement, that there are no motor cars there to "frighten your horses." Is that is a side- or a boost? The Baptists of Lamar adopted "ringing resolutions" denouncing the Secretary of Agriculture for his actions in accepting the honorary presidency of the International Brewers' Congress. Col.

Aaron States of the Lamar Republican-Sentinel is a Christian gentleman and a standpat Republ can. Therefore the Baptists placed that worthy editor tinal" analysis, embarrassing however, position. he took In the the Wilson end of the argument. We didn't know Just how much we owed our various school teachers until we had read the following eulogy from the Lockwood Luminary: "The schoolma'am is the guiding star of the Republic. She takes the little bantling fresh from the home nest, full of his pouts, his pets and his passions, ungovernable in many cases, a rampant, riotous little wretch whose own mother often admits she sends him to school purposely to get rid of him.

The schoolma'am takes a whole carload of these little anarchists, half of whom singly and alone cannot be handled by their own mothers, and she puts them in the way of becoming useful citizens." Billy Sunday, the baseball evangelist, will not play his scheduled game in St. the local clergy thought he worth. Joseph. Billy wanted more money, than Clinton calls itself the "Artesian Princess of the Prairies," while Osceola manages to worry along with the high sounding title of "The Queen City of the Osage." No adverse criticism. Let the children have their fun, say we.

The girls of Fulton, says Colonel Bennett of the Mexico Ledger, have organized an anti-slang society. A certain miss with golden hair was elected president. Asked if she would accept the position, I am my cupola that she Mike! Gosh, girls, really short on gab. We are certainly hitting the high places and I never tumbled to such a posish before, but when I give you the high ball I expect you to get there, Eli, and whoop 'er up for all that's out. I think I'm up to snuff enough so that the flies won't light on me while doing the president stunt or this society act, but I won't stand for any monkey -doodle business from you gals while I'm running this ranch.

We ought to extend an invite to the married ladies to get out the wet and help us shoot this slang business. It's getting fierce. Gosh, gals, come on in; the water 18 "There are still many men in the who will have nothing to do with anything, says they the don't Mountain thoroughly Grove under- Jourstand "therefore, there is no danger of the supply of bachelors running out." One hundred and twenty-seven men, Including Governor Hadley and Prestdent Bush of the Missouri Pacific, make up the boosting party of the Springfield Commercial Club, which is now on 118 annual niotor car tour of the Ozark country, The route of the boosters tends over four hundred miles. Down here where the divorce mill grinds every minute it always is a pleasure to note there still can be such A thing 8.8 a golden wedding. Mr.

and Mrs. Dave Osborne of Renick, Randolph County, will have completed fifty years of wedded life next Sunday. CASTORIA Bears the signature of Cham. F. Fletcher.

In use for over thirty yeare, and The Kind You Have Always Bought. -Adv. LOOK OUT FOR SPIES! This In the Information Being Passed Around in the German Army, European Letter to the New York Sun, The new training handbooks Issued for the German army and navy contain a special paragraph relating to the spy question, which has been to the fore in Germany and England during the last year. The passage reads as follows: "The idea that spies appear only when war is definitely threatened or declared is a mistaken one. Spies attached to foreign powers are at work during times of peace are to be found especially in the neighborhood of fortifications.

disguised and do everything possible to get acquainted with our own soldiers. "Often they pretend to be veterans, with a fine display of medals; often journalists anxious to write articles for the papers, and in this latter guise it is not unusual to find them trying to obtain photographs ostensibly of groups of soldiers but really of the fortifications or other matters of importance which are carefully, made to form the background pictures. "Troops should be on their guard against the offer of drinks by suspicious looking persons, who take guch opportunities of worming Information of a valuable nature from them and then threaten to inform against the men unless they swear to keep the Interview secret. Soldiers must report to the authorities any such interylews they may be induced to allow." SAW A HERD OF WHITE DEER. Two Men Ran Across Them in the Rio Grande Border Region.

From the New York Sun. Sanderson, James F. Baker and C. T. Lowder, who have arrived here from a trip of exploration of the Rio Grande border region, give corroborative testimony concerning the existence of a large herd of pure white deer in a secluded valley.

Reports that such a herd of deer made its home in the border fastness have been brought to the outside world by Mexican goat herders and travelers from time to time for the last twenty years and more. Several expeditions were organized to search for the deer and if possible to bring specimens, but in every case failure was met with. Several years the attention of the Smithsonian Institution was called to the reported existence of this herd of white deer and a representative of the Institution was sent to investigate matter. He failed to find enough evidence of the truth of the reports to Justify further research. Baker and Lowder went into the rough territory primarily for the purpose of hunting for the candelilla weed, which has recently come to have commercial value because of high grade of wax that it yields.

They took with them a Mexican cook and guide, but they found that he was useless so far as guiding them was concerned when they crossed a few of the ranges of hills. Everywomas. From the Detroit Free Press. (With Apologies.) Everywoman--I'm ready now. me up the back, please.

Everyman--Can't you wait a Everywoman--I do wish you'd come willingly just once. Everyman (fumbling with her dress) -I wish they'd Invent something fashtonable for women that they could put on themselves. Everywoman--This is the last time I shall able to this gown. I've got to have a new one. Everyman--I can't afford it.

Everywoman--That's what you always say. Everyman--I need a new overcoat. Everywoman- -You got one three years ago. You can get new sleeve lining and a new velvet collar for $1.50, and it will look as good as new. Everyman- I did that last year and it didn't look as good as new (straining and tugging trying to make the gown hook).

This dress is too tight for you. Everywoman--Silly, It's so big I can almost it. Everyman--You're ruining your health dressing this way. Everywoman--What nonsense. Everything I own hangs like a bag on me.

Everyman--I wish they hooked like bags. guess that's all. Everywoman--Just a minute. Does any of my white skirt show? Everyman--Not a bit. Everywoman- See any powder on my nose? Everyman- Everywoman--Have Not more you than locked usual.

up the Everywoman--Attended to the furnace? Everyman-Yes. Everywoman--Then I'm ready to start. (She jumps back.) Good gracious, haven't you shaved yet? For goodness sake, what have you been doIng all this time? ANSWERS whet in to ta 1 musle. City, following what or what which school or in this are is by The Kansas City Times. (THE.

Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) WILLIAM R. NELSON, EDITOR AND OWNER. Address all Letters: THE KANSAS CITE STAR, KANSAS CITY, Mo. SUBSCRIPTION RATES--Morning. Evening and Sunday (thirteen papers week), delivered by carriers in Kansas City and vicinity, cents a week.

By mail, postage prepaid, week: year, $5.20. mail subscripLions are payable in advance. Entered at the postoffice in Kansas City for transportation through the mails as second class mail matter. Postage for Single Copies--For an 8, 10 or 12-page paper, 1 cent; 16 to 28 pages, 2 cents: over pages, 3 cents. During September the paid circulation of The Star was as follows: Evening and Sunday (daily average) 163,323 Morning (daily average) 163,371 Weekly Star (average) 271,336 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12.

IT may be hoped that whatever dispute arises involving the 0. K. Creek sewer and the River will be adjusted in harmony with scientific and physteal facts. It is to be believed, as well as hoped, that there will be no disposition on the part of either of Kansas City's two municipal governments or of the drainage board to interfere with one another's essential welfare. ferences of all concerned should result in a satisfactory working out of what al- inevitably mutual problems.

RECORD OF WESTERN GROWTH. The record of the Atchison, 'Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company furnishes interesting evidence of the growth of the West in the last ten years. The company's gross earnings in the year ending June 30, 1911, were nearly 110 million dollars on 10,350 miles of road, and they compare with 55 millions In gross earnings on 7,807 miles of road ten years ago. There has been only a moderate growth of population In the served by the railroad. Its territory, expansion of earnings tells a story of increased crops, larger demands for merchandise, more comfortable homes, better equipment for business, the upbuilding of cities and all the factors that enter into the progress of material civilization.

"APPLES are so plentiful in parts of Illinois this year," says Mr. James Callaway of Taylorville, "that there is no market for them." Oh, Mr. Callaway! A JUST OR UNJUST NATION. Arizona's right to be a state was vetoed by President Taft because its first constitution provided the judicial recall. But now California, which is already a state, has adopted the recall, including the judicial recall.

Oregon had already adopted it. Arizona may do the same thing, once it becomes a state. Neither the President nor Congress may interfere. Of course, Taft's action in the Arizona veto was simply the expression of his personal protest against the idea that popular government should incinde the branch of government as well as the executive and legislative. That protest is shared by very many other persons but apparently a much larger proportion of the people of the United States take the opposite viewpoint.

As far as judicial action must be political, that is, involving the construetion of the constitution, the structure of laws, it is difficult to deny the right of the people to the ultimate cision of what their government shall be. Manifestly, it can no more be said that Judges are wiser than the people concerning political affairs than that kings and hereditary nobilities are wiser than the people. As to the more purely Judicial function of administering justice, there is nothing in the history of the American people which forecasts that they will attempt to influence the course of litigation of purely private rights. Fundamentally it would seem that justice can have no securer basis than the sense of justice of the people. If the Nation is unjust, in other words, it cannot be made just by judges.

NO VIRTUE IN HIDING VICE. Earnest people, official and unofficial, are earnestly considering how best to deal with that municipal problem called the social evil. It would be very valuable to Kansas City just at this time if every responsible citizen should study the report of the Chicago vice commission on this subject. That commission was headed by the dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of Chicago and included twenty-nine other leaders in religious and social service. But the report cannot go through the mails because of a lunkhead, superofficious order of the postmaster of Chicago.

That order was in direct conflict with the intelligent recognition of the fact that the only way to even hope to overcome a degrading condition is for goclety to face it and learn the truth about it. 40 HE WHO READS MAY GET BALLED UP. A prosecutor's information, filed some time ago in the criminal court here, contained twelve typewritten foolscap pages. An instruction to the jury in the case followed the language of the prosecutor's information. The defendant was convicted and appealed.

The supreme court ruled that the Information (indictment) had followed the requirement of the statute- -the 1 requirement being that the accused person should be clearly informed of what he was charged with. But the court held that the instruetion to the jury which adopted the language of the information was 50 long and verbose that it must have confused the And the Judgment was reverged. The lawyers ought to be quite proud of the criminal processes they have devised-as, indeed, they are. Tie fact that laws so often not what they seem is admirably exemplifled in the case of the Missouri statute WHAT HAVE THE YEARS BROUGHT! What have the years brought? Empty places Filled with the hosts of long ago: Hopes dispelled and vanished faces, Passions Fierce whose fire burned low: Many fair projects that end in nought, The years have brought, the years have brought. Shadows of scenes and dreama of youth, Friends that were false, amiles that were bright.

Ashes of love and sparks of the truth, Fading away 88 the day into night; Many denials of what we sought The years have brought, the years have brought. -Eliza T. Thorrowgood. Dead Men Stop Railroads In China Graves Have Precedence Over Rights-of-Way-When the First Locomotives Appeared the Natives Were Paralyzed With Fear, but Now They Sleep ON the Tracks. Lewis R.

Freeman in the World Today, 0 great was the distrust of the of Chinese the first government railroad built and in people the Middle Kingdom that, after it had been in operation a very short time, they tore It up. Fearing that even the materials might be the cause of bring. ing down Ill luck upon them, they had the whole thing- rails, sleepers and roll1 stock-loaded on ships and carried to the Island of Formosa, then a Chinese possession. This was done under pretence of giving the Formosans the benefit of the "enlightenment of the West," as an imperial edict put it. But there never was made a serious attempt to install it properly, and the rusting and rotting materials lay there, until the Japanese picked them 1895 and used what they could in the construetion of a real railroad.

This heritage of mingled fear and hatred has met foreign railway builders wherever they have pushed Into new territory in China, and every road, of course, is practically in new territory. In many instances whole villages have been temporarily deserted on the approach of the first locomotive, and, more remarkable still, hundreds of coolies who had worked for months on cuts and Alls, have fled in dismay at the appearance of the forerunning construction train. A gang of coolies, which had stampeded to the hills on the coming of the first locomotive, was induced to return and get acquainted with the quiescent monster. Approaching it by and twos, in fear and trembling, they gradually regained their courage, and ultimately allowed themselves to be grouped for a photograph. After a couple of plates had been exposed, the Chinese engineer- seasoned veteran from another road who appears to have been something a joker the full pressure of pent-up steam through the whistle, at the same time allowing the cylinders to blow off hot clouds of hissing vapor.

The effect upon the only half-assured coolies was thing beyond description. Several dozen sprang helterskelter into the nearby canal, and the only one who did not his heels- -and the hills was a man who attempted a high dive from the top of the cab and broke his neck. SLEEPING ON THE TRACK. A few months after the railroad was opened, some of the inhabitants of a village, who had decamped en masse when the first train came through, were found taking their noonday slesta upon the track. These particular coolles, who had been engaged as section hands after their fright and distrust had worn off, were not long in discovering that an 80-pound steel rail was almost identical in height and hardness with the regulation Chinese wooden pillow.

Forthwith a few of the sharpest hunks of broken stone ballast were brushed from a half dozen of the expensive Australian hardwood sleepers, and when the company's photographer came along on handcar a half hour later he found an equal number of sleepers that were neither expensive nor Australian. A running fire of peremptory orders from the general office in Shanghai was finally successful in putting an end to what was rapidly becoming a regular practice on the part of section hands all In the case of nonemployees, however, it has been exercise much authority, and not even the beheading of several coolies caught sleeping on curves where the engineers did not have fair chances to stop their trains, has seemed to have dampened the enthusiasm for "sleeping on the sleepers," of such villagers as chance to become aweary on their way. One of the most persistent obstacles In the way of railway construction in China is the presence of the grave yards. There is no way of instituting condemnation proceedings in China, and who does not ACcept a monetary salve for the Injury to his feelings caused by the obliteration of his ancestral tablets, cannot be forced by "public expediency" to move the sacred ashes by which he sets so much store. Most of the concessions granted by the Chinese government stipulate that, as far as possible, graves of all classes shall be left undisturbed, the may considerable be said that, losses even, time and Involving credit of the foreign comintasioners, It these agreements, for the most part, seem to have been scrupulously observed.

One of the most striking instances of this deference to the feelings of the Chinese came to my notice while out with a party which was on a brief trip of Inspection over the recently completed Kowloon Railway. RAISED A BRIDGE FOR SPIRITS. The visit of inspection was in honor of Mr. A. W.

U. Pope, general manager of the Nanking Railway, who WAS on his way to Europe, and who, it may be said, has a very good chance of returning to the specially created posttion of railway adviser to the Chinese I government. Mr. Pope's quick eye had noted the fact that a long steel and concrete bridge, at which the special had halted, appeared to be several feet higher and a good many feet longer than WAS necessary, and he promptly called the circumstance to the attention of Sir Frederick Lugard, the governor of Hongkong, on whose Invitation we were making the trip. The latter smiled rather weariedly, as one and who has to tell an oft repeated story, led the party to a position of vantage on one of the conerete abutmenta.

"You gentlemen see that group of graves down there?" he queried, pointIng to a little cluster of horseshoe shaped hollows, faced with concrete, a couple of hundred yards on the stream side of the bridge. "They are the earthly resting places of the ancestors of the headman of the little village around the bend and the oldest of them date back I don't know how many cen- Lu this column The Star tiona about colas or give cannot answer legal advice quip addresses. private The names and of formation should be given persona addresses department. This is not wanted publication, adairessing but as an evidence of good faith. Questions asked by the either column: indefinite G.

H. or Bishop, unanswerable L. C. R. M.

Kincaid. Simpson, Musie. To The Star: Please state largest number of sharps is Could the there possibly be fourteen tia in muste? CITY sharpe HEADER. The major key having the number of sharps is the key of largest which has twelve sharps, sharp, having the and the key largest number of flats the key of double flat, twelve flats. Keys containing has or six flats are the only ones that six sharps practical are tu use.

Books. To The Star: Please tell the a person with only a grammar books cation should read in order edu. and enjoy poetry. understand Kansan A taste for poetry 1g best Kar reading and studying the best cultivated for instance, Browning, poets, Tennyson, Swinburne, Hood, Ingelow, Kipling, Keats, Shelley, low, Lowell, Poe, LongtelWordsworth, Scott, Whittier and hosts of others. Reading the lives of these men also help you to understand and enjoy their works.

To Get Stout. To The Star: What fat? Mrs. T. L. should Olathe, do Kas get to The thin person must not worry, must not hurry, must sleep eight Or nine hours at night, should take the day and must eat catnap a during plenty of nutritious food.

Salads dressed with oll, milk, eggs, bread and butter are all things which to Increase the weight. A glass of warm milk just before going to bed and a of cup chocolate sipped about 4 o'clock in the after. noon, when one is physically weary, will help. Exercise should be taken in mod. eration, and the dally bath should not be a hot one.

Army. City Reader: Gen. Jacob S. Coxer, commander in chief of the Army of the of inaction on Hill in Washing. Unemployed, reappeared, upon the scene ton, February 26, 1908.

Alone, but armed and equipped with bills in his hands and battle on his brow, he led the charge upon the trenches of plutocracy. It was early in the spring ol 1893 that the gallant general first led his forces of unemployed and earned his title. Transfers, Kansas City. J. M.

City: The only regulation in the "peace agreement" relating to transfers says: "The provision as to transfers shall not be so construed as to enable passengers to make what 18 commonly known as a By a '100p' is meant such a system of transfers as will enable a passenger to return sub. stantially to the initial point for a single fare. It being the intention of this contract that transfers shall be furnished that will enable a passenger to go by a reasonably direct route to his destination at any point on the company's lines for a single fare, and the provision as to 'loops' shall not be so construed as to interfere therewith, but it shall not be so construed that a transfer shall be given so as to enable a passenger to go to one point and stop there and then return by some other route to the point from which he started. But the city specially reserves to itself the right and power by reasonable ordinances to reg. ulate the matter of transfers so as to carry out the spirit of this section.

The company may require a passenger who requests a transfer to then declare his destination." April Fool's Day. 8. L. Kearney, April 1, known as "All Fools' Day," has long been in America, and for a still longer day period for in many mocking European unwary persons countries, by a sending them on bootless errands or making them the victims of some other practical jokes. seems to have been unknown to German antiq uity.

Grimm regards it as having been introduced into Germany from France in comparatively modern times. Varlous theories have been held as to the origin of the custom. One traces the custom to the miracle play formerly pregented Easter, which sometimes showed the sending of Christ from Annas to Calaphas, and from Pilate to Herod; another finds the origin in some ancient pagan festival, where similar tricks were played, such as the Hull Festival, held by the Hindus on March 31, or the Feast of Fools, celebrated the Romans February 17. In France victim is called un poisson d' Avril, the April fish (possibly from the reopenan of the fisheries at that season); in ing Scotland, a gowk or a cuckoo. No Takers.

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